CHAPTER 8
NEW SCOTLAND YARD AND SILVERTOWN, LONDON
Commissioner Phadkar addressed the entire squad working on what she labelled the tram murders. On her instructions, DCI Ridgeway had assembled his team in a communal area around a whiteboard, where Shepherd had written the salient points of the case with coloured arrows evidencing possible links. Vance gazed thoughtfully at the highest-ranking officer at Scotland Yard as she stated what disturbed him most.
“Ladies and gentlemen, history is repeating itself. We are dealing with a copycat murderer. Quite likely, it’s someone intimately connected with Arnold Tibbet. This individual is not only sticking closely to the same series of victims but is aping the timings—and now this!” She flourished a letter that had arrived with the morning pos
