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They don't get any lighter.

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All the latest news

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Bit lost love? Ah... 158?
Just there, sweetheart.

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Ta.

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Hold that, would you?

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What do you make of it?
Looks old.

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It is barely indifferent. Jacobean poetry.
Calfskin binding worth a couple

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of bob. What are these
brown spots on the pages?

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You get straight to the heart of the
matter, Mr. um Jack. It's just Jack.

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That's called foxing. Jack. Just Jack.
It's what time does to books.

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To all of us. In the profession we
say it's slightly foxed. Interested?

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You know, there's a mistake.
A mistake?

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Well, isn't there?
Above the door, a sign.

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What about it?
Well, it's wrong, isn't it?

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There's no apostrophe in books.
There is.

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There isn't. There is.
There isn't. There is.

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There isn't. There is if your name is Book
and you own the shop, which it is, and I do.

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My name is Book. Book's books.
Confusing, I know. Or is it handy?

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I can never decide.
Anyway, I'm Book and I run a

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bookshop. This one, obviously.
You must be here about the job. Tea?

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Not quite there yet.

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I'm trying to make ginger snaps.
How much?

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Where were you dragged up?
One for each person and one for the pot.

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Oh, where have we got to Jack?
Just Jack.

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Uh, this is dog book dog job.
I have a little hobby on the side and I find it's

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taking me away from the shop more and more.
So, I require assistance.

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God.

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Oh, that's better. I must have tea.
Without tea, I am merely unreconstituted

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dust.

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Look, this isn't really my sort of gaff.
I mean, I thought they'd maybe send me

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to a factory or something.
They Well, you know where I've come from,

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don't you? You know that I was No
need to mention it again. What are

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you hoping for now?
You've got the job, Jack. Just as Jack,

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I just want to keep my head down, you
know, try and get back to normal. Wait,

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I've got the job. Normality is overrated.
Yes, you got the

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job if you want it.
Darling, you must come at once.

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Oh. Uh, Trottie, this is Jack.
Just Jack.

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Jack, this is Trottie, my wife.
Hello.

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Hello. Well, what is it? The bomb site.
The men carrying the bomb

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site. You know where
Inkermman Street used to be?

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Oh, yes, that one. What of it?
Well, they found something in suspicious

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circumstances.
My favourite kind of circumstances.

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Heat. Heat.

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Heat.

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Heat.

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Wow.

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Me.

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I was wondering if we'd be seeing
you like a bad penny, Sergeant.

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Yeah, well, you know my feelings.
You've made them exquisitely plain, but

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as you know, I do have a special
letter from Churchill. Yeah,

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it's good to cover them up.

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All right. Oh, hello book.
Mrs. Book, thought this

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might be up your street.
Almost literally.

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Start at the beginning, Inspector,
and leave nothing out. Especially if it's

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salacious, gory, or vaguely scandalous.
Bit of a puzzle. Mr. Basehart here was

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starting to clear away the rubble
from his cell bomb site the other day.

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Inkerman Street caught it in
44, didn't it?

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Yes, sir. Terrible pounding.
Do you remember that raid, sir?

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How could I forget? Trottie and I ended
up cheek by jowl in the Anderson shelter

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with the man from the credential
insurance company. You had lovely

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fingernails. Terrible halitosis.
Those shelters

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weren't built for sharing.
War's over, Mr. Basehart.

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Quite so, sir. But I still like to
patrol my route for old time's sake. And

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to keep an eye on old Brenda
there, my trusty search light.

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Well, here he was trying to clear away
the rubble when lo, what does he find?

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Lo? What?

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What happened to Betsy?
Tossed together like a skeletal salad.

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How many?
It's hard to tell cuz they're all

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jumbled up. But 10 or 12, I'd say.
Quite why Mr. Basehart didn't tell the

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authorities about his discovery
forthwith with is another matter.

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He didn't? No.
Some kiddies who were playing here

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let us know.
As I was saying, I have a theory.

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Well, obviously they copped it in the
raid, didn't they?

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What do you think, Jack? Me.

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You?

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Uh, yeah.
That's what must have happened.

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Air raid killed him. Died 2 years
ago and now they're all rotted away.

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That would be a logical assumption.
Who's this?

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So, you don't think they
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If you recall, Inkerman Street was already
empty, wasn't it, Mr. Basehart?

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Scheduled for demolition.
So, nobody was living here, in which case.

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Who are they?
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Anybody could have taken shelter from
the bombing in one of the empty houses?

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A dozen of them. What about clothes?
Clothes? All flesh is grass. The raid

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was only 2 years ago. Even if the bodies
had rotted away, their clothes would

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still be intact.
I think Mr. Bart and I are thinking along

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similar lines.

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Well, that would appear
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What do you think?

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The unmistakable bonds
of King Charles II.

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Oh, does it have a date on it, too?
1665.

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Plague pit. Yeah.
So, it would seem.

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A what? Plague pit. The great plague.
London's burial grounds were

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overflowing, so they dug these great big
pits and dumped all the corpses in them.

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I I'm a bit of an archaeologist on the side.
Strictly amateur, you understand?

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So, why didn't you tell us
straight away when you found them?

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Well, I I knew I'd never get a chance
like this again. I just wanted a bit of

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time to excavate them.
Fascinating stuff.

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I really am very sorry, Inspector.
Yes. Well, no harm done, I suppose.

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Not sure about that.
These skeletons might still be lively.

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Well, you mean it's still catching.
The jury, as they say, is out, but I

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think it's very unlikely.
Do you mind if I hang on to this?

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You're welcome to it.
Right, Mr. Book?

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Well, hello, Nora. Why?
I'm not surprised to see you here. Did you know

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that back then they used to use great
catapults to toss plaguey corpses into

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besieged cities to
deliberately infect people?

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That's horrible, Nora.
I know.

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And a split infinitive.
Even more horrible.

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Might be worth a bit too.
Sergeant get this lot taken care of in a

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pronto with care. And where to sir?
Uh uh morgue I suppose get Dr. Gold to take a

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shufty. See if there's any chance
they're still infectious. Sure.

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Thank you book
anytime, Inspector.

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Sergeant, why can't you
collect stamps like normal

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people?

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Oh dear.

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Are you all right? Yeah. Um,

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it's all just a bit
uh being coppers.

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I've uh been away, you see.
And.

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Oh, yes, I I know. Can't have been very nice.
Tell me all about it when

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you're ready. Hey, let me take this.
Well, you must stay with us, mustn't

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you? Now that you've got the job,
I have the premises next door. Book has his

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books. I have my wallpaper.
And there is a darling little attic room between the

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two. Why are you
helping me like this?

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Why not?

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World Harkup. Suicide.
I heard heard uh from your colleague over there.

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Oh, I’ll have his ruddy guts for garters.
This goes

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against all the rules of Right, Sergeant.
All right.

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Mr. Book's always welcome to give us
the benefit of his wisdom, as you know.

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Yes. Yes.

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Bad business, but very bad.
Poor sod.

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What the hell do you
think you're playing?

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But look, Morris has a point.
This is a plain ordinary suicide. I mean, I can be

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flexible, as you know.
When something a little bit more

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rash but anything with an acute accent
unusual comes along like like our our

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friends the skeleton but this is a meat
and potatoes job you know the sergeant

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and I are perfectly capable
who found him charred

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pretty shook up, she is. Dredge it
rings a little bell she's been

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doing for Harkup for donkeys
ding dong was there a note

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no no note How did he do it?
Prussic acid

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nasty and intriguing,
don't you think,

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Mr. Harkup? Afraid so.
Looks like suicide.

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Oh, dreadful.
Well, I'd better get on. Too much

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excitement for one day.
Jack, nip back the shop, would you?

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There's a pile of newspapers.
Third stack on the right as you come in.

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Charing cross dispatch underneath two
volumes of Eleanor of Castile and the

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wilting aspidistra.
Fetch them for me would you?

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Okay. And put the kettle on again.
We're going to have company.

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All right.

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Oh, well, see as it's from him.
Oh, I I brought a coffee and walnut cake

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round for Mr. Harkup.
You might as well have it.

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This is your usual char day.
Yes, every week regular as clockwork.

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But I only saw him yesterday
popped around to get some bandages.

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Bandages? Oh, my son.
He was injured in the war.

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He needs constant attention.
The dressing.

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What time did you see Mr. Harkup?
6 6ish I think. It doesn't seem

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possible. Him standing there
all full of life and then

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finding him lying there like that.
You're doing very well. And was he

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was he full of life when you
saw him in good spirits, I mean.

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Well, to be honest,
he seemed a little down.

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Though why’d he want to go and do a
horrible thing like that to himself.

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Any vices? Vices, sir.

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We must investigate all angles, alas, dear lady.

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Man of very regular habits.
He was church every Sunday. Kept his accounts

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in very neat order. I think that was the
soldier in him. He... he did play dominoes.

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Dominoes? Every Monday
and Thursday night in the

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Bull with Mr. Basehart and some others.
Does that count as a vice?

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I hardly think so.
You have any family?

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My mother always said, "If you can't say
anything nice about someone, don't open"

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"your trap." So,
there was bad blood then.

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There's a daughter, isn't there?
Some estrangement.

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I wouldn't like to say.
Don't seem right.

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What with Mr. H not cold in his grave?
Heavens, this cake.

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Yes. Oh, it's superb.

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Oh, too kind, sir.
But then I'd expect nothing less.

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Oh, why'd you say that?
From Miss Lyon's Corner House, 1921.

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Fancy you knowing that.
It was 1922, though.

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My mistake. How the Dickens.

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Oh, I store up a lot of little tidbits like that.
Mostly useless. Must have

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been a lovely experience. Oh yes.
Oh, I've never felt so

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glamorous. I bought a new hat and
the Lord Mayor winked at me. Winked

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fancy. Worked there for years.
I did at the

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corner house.
So I got very good with the baking.

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Mr. H used to love my pineapple upside down.
You know, it really would be most

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helpful to know why he and his daughter
Sarah uh Lar Marula, that's right. Why

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he and Marula no longer saw eye to eye.
Well, seeing as you've been so kind,

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sir. Very good of you.

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She was a cow. A right.
Horrible, money grabbing

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little cow. I see.

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Apple of his eye she was, after his wife passed on.
But she knew how to twist him around

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her little finger. Nothing was too much
for his little princess. Oh, and then

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she has the gall to
run off with him. Him?

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Mickey. Mickey Hall. It's a right ne’er-do-well.
Do well. Up to all sorts in the war spy

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stuff. You know, black market.
He's a motor mechanic. They've got a garage out

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Mile End way. Mile End, charming.

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And now Marula will
inherit the lot.

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Don't seem right, do it.
No, it, um,

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don't. Thanks for the cake.

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What the hell do you think you're doing?
Just being neighbourly, Sergeant. Uh your

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witness, I think.

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Hello again. Oh, hello, Book.

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I just wondered if I could have a little
nosy around before I head out. See if I

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can help at all. Head out.

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Oh, Mrs. Book and I are often pleasure bent.
The new boys babysitting. Up

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for the dog. Dog.
There's no definite article.

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Off to the pictures. Rerunning a Sandra
Dare at the Rialto. The opera. Fat.

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Ladies singing.
Speaking of which, may I, um.

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There's a daughter, but Mrs.
Dredge says they didn't get on.

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So, I gather.
Yeah, we're endeavouring to Trace her.

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She has a garage, Mile End.
Oh, right.

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Thanks.

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Funny, aren't they? Mrs.
Bliss goes in for something

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similar. Little... little knickknacks.
Not quite the same. I think these are

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jade. Rather fine.
And this one,

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Mr. Harkup was obviously
a connoisseur.

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So bad.

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Do you think it was suicide?
You have doubts?

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I do. What's your theory?
Evening, gentlemen.

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Evening. Oh, Eric. Black Lamb and Grave Falcon.
Hey, that book for Sheila. It's arrived

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 Oh, smashing.
Um, she'll come over

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tomorrow for it. Right. Quite a whistle.
Oh, thank you. I was never keen on him

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myself. Harkup. God forgive me.
Bit of a little Hitler. Still poor bugger

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offing himself like that.
So is that what's your theory?

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Patience, Inspector. Patience.
The two most powerful warriors are patience and

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time. Tolstoy. Couldn't get into it.
Tried that one,

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you know, where she chucks
herself up in front of a train.

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No. No.

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Inspector.

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Too much?

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No, not at all.
Uh, you look amazing.

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I meant the walls. Oh,

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Book says it's an affront to good taste,
but I don't know. I think it has a

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certain something. Don't you?
I'm good at knocking things together. I I always

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have been. Wardrobes, wireless sets, heads.
I was in the land army. Gin?

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What? Oh, yeah. Please.

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So, you're going out then? My day.
We're always going out. Well,

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one has to live, doesn't one?
Especially after the time we've all had. There's

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some chops in the larder.
I think your room's up at the top. I've aired the

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sheets.

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You're I mean thank you

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Better go and unpack.

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Well, well,

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I know that look.
You're onto something.

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Nonsense. Merely the happy look of a contented man.
I have my lovely wife, my

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lovely shop, my lovely dog.
What more could a man ask for?

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Broad. Three things then.
Mr. Harkup collected

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Chinese jade figures of exceptional quality.
But dust is eloquent. As

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someone once said, dust doesn't lie.
One of the figures has been replaced with a

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bit of cheap trash, a chess piece,
but the larger outline remains clear. Mrs.

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Dredge hasn't cleaned in a while,
despite what she said. Secondly, Mr.

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Harkup has a small lump on the back of his head.
Not caused by him falling, I

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don't think. Or probably a blow with
a blunt instrument. A blunt instrument

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that didn't break the skin.
And yet, there is blood on the back of Mr.

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Harkup's scalp. Thirdly, yes,

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Darkling I listen and for many a time
I have been half in love with easeful

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death. Called him soft names and many
amused rhyme to take into the air my

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quiet breath. Pardon?

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Why would a chemist with every known
gentle poison in the shop choose to kill

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himself with something
as horrible as Prussic acid?

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Well, Book.
There you are, then.

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Yes, Trottie. There we are.

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It's murder.

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Book? Mrs. Book?

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Be careful.

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Shop.

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Ah, good morning.

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How can I help?
Oh, well, I'm... I'm after a book.

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You are very much in the right place.
What do you think, young man? What would

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suit the lady best?
Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Henry James.

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Do you have the new Georgette Heyer?
Ah,

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well, I I've read all her other ones.
Me, too. And what a smasher she is. But

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that would be a new book.
Miss um Mrs. Goodwin.

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Mrs. Goodwin. Jean.

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Jean. We don't really go for
those, do we?

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We should try Foyle’s.
It's a bit of a trudge. Well, my feet

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being what they are.
I have the perfect alternative. One who

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is spinning romantic yarns when Miss
Heyer was still in the cradle, probably.

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Oh, well, if you think that,
but I mean, if you'd recommend Shy,

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pardon, I'm sure.
Sorry. Thinking. Ah.

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Orczy. Never heard of him.

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Her. Baroness, Hungarian.
The Scarlet Pimpanel.

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Oh, I've heard of that.
French Revolution.

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It's a delight. You won't regret it.
When you've finished, come back and I'll

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find you the sequel.
Oh, that's very good of you. What do I

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hear of you? Oh, let's call it a Bob.
Hang on. Feet, feet, feet, feet.

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This is free.

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Oh, I I couldn't possibly.
Oh, there's nothing but sending you off

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happily on the bus without further
bunions is a price above rubies.

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Wouldn't you agree, Jean?
Thank you.

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Cheer by Come on, woman.

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I never make any money like
that, will I?

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He ho. Now then, Jack, excited to start the day.
There's a whole world of

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learning in here. All human life and some inhuman.
Still got that coin?

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Well, oh, uh, yeah.
Yeah, of course. Good.

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I don't mean to pry, Mr. Book, but um,
what exactly is it you do? I would have

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thought that was obvious. I sell books.
Yeah, but that's not all, is it?

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Yesterday out there at the bomb
site, chat with a char lady.

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Yes. Well, is that like your

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your hobby?
I mean, the way you talk to those

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coppers where they let you roam around that pit.
Are you like some sort of

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adviser to them or something?
I mean, why should they listen to you?

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They frequently don't, more fool them.
I did the inspector a favour once during

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the war. He hasn't forgotten.
Also, I have a special letter.

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A letter from Churchill.
Yeah, the cop has said that.

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A letter saying what?
It's a chaotic world, Jack. I have a

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system. Sometimes people like me to give
an opinion on things, impose a little

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order. That's all.
You can read all sorts of things,

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as well as books.

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This... This is your system.
Yes.

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What's wrong with it?
Well, they're not in any kind of order.

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cataracts of denial.

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Diseases of the eye and their treatment.
Cataracts. Eye disease. Logical.

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The guillotine. A practical guide.
The life and death of Alfred Mutton's Gent.

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Coins of the realm. I mean, there's no system.
There's no system at all.

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Well, it's all up here, isn't it?
How best to explain?

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Alfred Martins was a career criminal,
very successful forger in his day, which

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was Queen Victoria's day.
Extraordinary chap in his field. He was a coiner, a

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forger of coins, but his luck ran out
in Paris and they chopped off his head,

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which is why all those books
are clumped together, you see.

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Yeah, but that's, I
mean, that's silly.

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Nevertheless,

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well, I shall leave you
to, uh, hold the fort.

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Slightly foxed.

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Slightly foxed. Says it all.

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Morning.

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Yeah. Uh, can I help you?
I've come to collect an order.

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Uh, Right. Um, what's the name?
Sheila. Wellbeloved.

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Hello, Jack.

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Yeah, I'm Nora.
We've got lots to talk about.

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Thank you, miss.
Uh, again, very sorry for you.

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00:33:47,302 --> 00:33:52,318
Can I go now? Well, if you wouldn't
mind just answering a few questions.

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Um, would you just just come with
me, please.

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Fascinating.
Where better to hide a tree

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than in a forest?
And these markings

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indeed. Look, look.
Oh, hello. Just checking in

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on those skeletons
with Dr. Calder here.

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Ah, yes. Any risk of infection?
Quite safe on that, Count Inspector.

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However, ah, loose lips drop
slips, as they say in

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the nicker trade. Wouldn't want
to spoil the surprise, would we?

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Surprise.
Anyway, back to the case in hand,

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this is Miss Marula Harkup.
Oh, my dear child, I'm so very sorry.

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A few questions, you said.
Do you mind if I tag along?

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Oh, don't forget that
blood test will you? On its way…

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Sorry about that. There you go.
Black lamb and grey falcon

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sounds interesting. T

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getting the hang
of it, slowly.

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00:35:05,841 --> 00:35:09,896
So, who are you? Nora.
I live across the road in the

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Turkish restaurant.
Help out in the shop sometimes.

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So, um, do you know him well
then, Mr. And Mrs. Book?

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Yeah. And do you know
about his little hobby?

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Bloody hell. Yes.
It's all I think about.

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Isn't all that I
mean, isn't that

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unhealthy? I should think so.

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What d’your mom and dad think?
Don't have any.

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00:35:39,521 --> 00:35:45,097
What do you mean?
Well, it was the war, wasn't it?

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Everyone lost someone.
I lost them.

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Sorry.

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What happened?
So, how we getting on anyway with the

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Books, Mr. and Mrs.

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It's not quite what I expected.
What is his Christian name, by the way? What do

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you think?
Cookbook, scrapbook, mucky book,

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Gabriel. Ah,

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Like the angel. Archangel.
I think you'll find they're a

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dream. Both of them
such sweethearts. So,

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what's your story?

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They think I'm hard. I'm not
sniffling, boohooing all over the shop.

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I mean, it's just not the way I'm made.
So there,

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your father. I'm sorry that he's dead.
Of course I

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am. He was my dad in
spite of everything.

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He didn't make it easy
to, um, to love him though.

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Can you think of any reason why
he'd want to take his own life?

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None. No. He was nicely
set up with a shop and

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well, mum had left him
a few bob when she died.

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00:37:22,642 --> 00:37:25,458
You don't think your
estrangement? No.

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Nothing to do with that.
He wasn't the type to get all emotional.

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00:37:30,762 --> 00:37:37,218
Maybe that's where I get it from.
I mean, he made it very clear that he

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didn't approve of, um, me and Mickey,
but um he'd hardly have gotten killed

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himself in a fit of the glums about it.
He just he weren't the type, as I say.

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Tell us about Mickey.

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What's to say? He's my fellow.
How was his war?

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Why do you ask that?
Well, we know how much our father

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appreciated the armed forces.
Always wore his medal ribbons with great pride.

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Yes. Well, Mickey wasn't lucky.
His eyes, they're not they're not good.

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I say that's why he ended up with me.
I mean, he wouldn't have been much good

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against Jerry with eyes like his.
Dad didn't like that. Thought he was a

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Shirker. That was the start of it.
What was the finish?

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Well, dad was convinced that
Mickey was thieving from him.

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Cash? Morphine.

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Mickey got up to some shady business
during the war. Just stockings,

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cigarettes, small stuff. Dad had, um, just
got it into his head that Mickey was

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bad. And he'd noticed
morphine had gone

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missing. Yes.

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Wouldn't speak to us.
But you'd had a bit of news, haven't you?

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I thought a little one might be the
thing that brings us back together.

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00:39:02,922 --> 00:39:08,637
What's all this about? Why are you so
interested in Mickey if if dad has gone

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00:39:08,661 --> 00:39:10,920
and topped himself?

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Stories. Detective stories.
That's what I want to

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write. I've got so many ideas.
It's Such an exciting new world out there.

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00:39:27,201 --> 00:39:33,458
Everything's all smashed up. The whole world.
No one knows what to do anymore.

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00:39:33,482 --> 00:39:38,537
Well, I do. The war turned everything upside down.
Shook it up. That's great.

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There's no going back to
how things used to be,

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including murders. Including murders.
Half the soldiers in.

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Britain have come home with pistols they
stole from dead Nazis, the country is a

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wash with them. So,

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so we only seem civilised in this
country because we're not armed. Think

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of all that throbbing suburban passion.
Husbands having affairs with

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secretaries, ladies having affairs with
their chauffeurs, all those contested

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wills and domestic rows. People used to
kill each other by boiling down arsenic

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from their wallpaper.
Now they just have to reach for a Luger.

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Pow pow pow.

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What did happen to your parents?
You're supposed to be telling me your

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story.

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I'm an orphan, too. I never knew my mum.
I got a picture of

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my dad. That's all.

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00:40:49,601 --> 00:40:52,857
I’m sorry. It's

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00:40:52,881 --> 00:40:55,961
all right.

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00:40:57,601 --> 00:40:59,577
I should um Yeah,

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00:40:59,601 --> 00:41:04,201
it was nice to meet you.
It was an incendiary.

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00:41:04,481 --> 00:41:07,481
What?

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00:41:08,801 --> 00:41:12,041
An incendiary.

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00:41:12,081 --> 00:41:16,640
Set the roof on
fire in the blitz.

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00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:23,721
Mom got me out and
went back for dad.

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Then the roof fell in.
I just sat there in the garden looking

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at the house. Just felt

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sort of numb.

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The ARP warden found me.
Then my uncle took me in. So

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00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:53,017
now I have to help him
out with the restaurant.

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00:41:53,041 --> 00:41:56,761
But you'd rather be..

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00:41:57,281 --> 00:42:02,121
much more exciting over
here, isn't it?

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00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:13,081
See the skull.

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00:42:24,961 --> 00:42:29,241
I gave up pleasure for Lent.

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00:42:29,761 --> 00:42:36,041
I gave up Lent for pleasure.

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00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:45,257
Well, what's your answer?

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00:42:45,281 --> 00:42:52,100
I told you before, I'm just a book seller.
I sell books again

440
00:42:52,125 --> 00:42:58,920
like I did before the war.
This would be for old times’ sake.

441
00:42:58,945 --> 00:43:04,841
And we did help you find him.
Very kind of you.

442
00:43:06,241 --> 00:43:11,896
How's all that working out?
It's complicated.

443
00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:18,680
Well, yes,
I imagine it is… delicate.

444
00:43:18,721 --> 00:43:22,537
And we wouldn't want
anything to go wrong,

445
00:43:22,561 --> 00:43:26,041
now, would we?

446
00:44:24,241 --> 00:44:28,376
So, what do we make of him? Mm?

447
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:33,977
Jack, put him in the attic room. Like Mrs.
Rochester, only slightly more

448
00:44:34,001 --> 00:44:37,098
butch. Has it ever occurred
to you that you are

449
00:44:37,122 --> 00:44:39,378
such a bibliophile?

450
00:44:39,402 --> 00:44:43,017
Because of your name?
Nominative determinism.

451
00:44:43,041 --> 00:44:48,697
I mean, if you've been called butcher,
you might be slicing up choice cuts of

452
00:44:48,721 --> 00:44:54,057
meat. Flensing, that's the word.
Removing fat

453
00:44:54,081 --> 00:44:59,098
from a carcass. Wonderfully descriptive word.
Flensing. I shall endeavour to

454
00:44:59,122 --> 00:45:03,178
bring it back.
Well, I wish you joy with that. Yes, you

455
00:45:03,202 --> 00:45:08,298
could be slipping me black market chops
under the counter like Mr. Wellbeloved.

456
00:45:08,322 --> 00:45:13,738
Much more useful than books these days.
I could have been an archer or a baker

457
00:45:13,762 --> 00:45:17,897
or a chandler.
Speaking of which, farewell, my lovely.

458
00:45:17,921 --> 00:45:21,458
Oh, you're going out again.
You're so sharp you'll cut yourself.

459
00:45:21,482 --> 00:45:26,778
Crime fiction, American. Customer put in a request.
I know it's here somewhere. I

460
00:45:26,802 --> 00:45:30,457
saw a lady in the lake recently.
Anyway, Jack,

461
00:45:30,481 --> 00:45:35,656
definite promise. Definite promise.
He didn't try to flog that coin.

462
00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:42,201
So, jail hasn't made a wrong ‘un for life.
Touchwood.

463
00:45:43,761 --> 00:45:49,400
And the, uh, other matter.

464
00:45:50,081 --> 00:45:54,201
It's too soon to tell him.

465
00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:24,616
What was so special about your book?
Nothing really. It's just about some

466
00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:31,177
chaps at school playing cricket.
And what do you think of Carol Darley?

467
00:46:31,201 --> 00:46:33,416
You've read Tim started it

468
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:39,561
when? After I saved it
from the incinerator.

469
00:46:42,241 --> 00:46:48,777
Look, what's your name? Budge up.

470
00:46:48,801 --> 00:46:52,440
It's a funny name.

471
00:46:52,961 --> 00:46:56,281
Thank you,

472
00:46:57,521 --> 00:47:03,497
Strotford Perry.
But my friends call me Trottie.

473
00:47:03,521 --> 00:47:06,537
You're splendid. You owe me.

474
00:47:06,561 --> 00:47:11,497
I do. So when I get
into trouble here, will

475
00:47:11,521 --> 00:47:17,961
you help me out?
Let us make a solemn pact.

476
00:47:28,321 --> 00:47:33,257
Put your strong arms around me, Carol,
and raise me a little. I can talk

477
00:47:33,281 --> 00:47:36,761
better. So,

478
00:47:38,640 --> 00:47:44,478
Carol bowed his head without a word and kissed
him, and thus their friendship

479
00:47:44,502 --> 00:47:46,121
was sealed.

480
00:47:52,721 --> 00:47:58,440
Good night, Mrs. Book.
Good night, Mr. Book.

481
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:18,281
The daughter, the spiv,
the char, the warden.

482
00:48:18,321 --> 00:48:24,680
Who gave Harkup
the ruddy poison?

483
00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:33,160

484
00:48:33,761 --> 00:48:36,761
Absent friends.

485
00:48:55,361 --> 00:48:58,361
Hi.

486
00:49:15,281 --> 00:49:20,376
Sir, you'll never believe it.
It takes a lot to surprise me. Mor,

487
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:25,338
what? What is it? We just got the
chemist's will through, sir. Yeah.

488
00:49:25,362 --> 00:49:31,081
Daughter doesn't get a bean.
No. No. Well, who does?

489
00:49:35,601 --> 00:49:42,920
Oh, the char. Mrs.
Ada Dredge.

490
00:49:50,321 --> 00:49:53,321
No.

491
00:49:59,121 --> 00:50:02,121
No.

492
00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:37,400
No.

493
00:50:38,305 --> 00:51:38,864
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