Slow ProgressConnor was becoming depressed. It had been four days since the series of murders had begun, and twenty four hours since Catherine Nickels had confirmed that Arminder Patel had become the latest victim of the poisoner and no real progress had been made.
The search of the room assumed to have been recently occupied by The Chocolate Woman at the Regency Hotel had thrown up nothing of forensic value. Apart from the fact that three other people had stayed in the room since the suspect, it had been cleaned on a daily basis by the staff and was therefore devoid of anything useful to the police. Any trace evidence that might have been present would have been totally corrupted by the time the police forensic squad got there.
Little or nothing had turned up from the Birmingham end of
