The Thing About Thugs by Tabish Khair

Author:Tabish Khair [Khair, Tabish]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Historical, Literary, Mystery & Detective
ISBN: 9780547731605
Google: GXopKZbL0JwC
Amazon: 0547731604
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2012-07-23T16:00:00+00:00

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Man Beheaded by Monster

Sketch by Daniel Oates

In a city as thriving and magnetic as Mother London, some crime and disorder is to be expected. And yet, what happened last night was a crime no Christian could have expected — or imagined. It was the sort of crime one only associates with other, hotter climes, with people reared on superstitions and barbarities, and not on the milk of human mercy that flows through Christian veins in the lands of civilization.

Mr Stanton, doing his midnight rounds in the notorious district of the Mint, was distracted into a dark alley by what sounded like a noise. Not daring to enter the murderous alley on his own, he whistled to a colleague who he knew was in the neighbourhood. The two policemen ventured resolutely into the alley, which was, as mentioned before, dark and foul and smelly, paved with filth and bordered by houses of a mean sort. Such was the filth in the alley that the two policemen, guided by the pale beams of a flickering lamp, almost failed to spot the crime on evidence. It was only when they were returning to the street that Mr Stanton’s feet struck a musical instrument that let off such an alarm that hearts less stout than those of our resolute heroes would have suffered an immediate collapse.

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