AtermathIn the days that follow
'This case may well be unique in pathological history.'
THE LOCAL POLICE DOCTOR, Dr. Earnest Maxwell, verifies that Selene is dead, not that there was too much doubt about the fact, since her head was lying in a basket beside he body (although Charlie could have advised that that did not necessarily mean anything) The body would remain in- situ for examination by a Home Office pathologist before release to an undertaker for transfer to the mortuary at Whitburn General Hospital.
Charlie's body is found on the beach by two small boys, brothers on holiday, who had come to the beach early to look for crabs in the rock pools (they were too late, the tide was already incoming ) As they run back to tell their parents, Colin, the youngest boy, cuts his foot on br
