The phone call Andy Ross received the following morning came as a pleasant surprise. The feelings of negativity and impending failure began hanging like the Sword of Damocles over the Inspector and his team since the previous afternoon. As much as none of them felt good about the possibility of allowing a murderer to go free, even after such a length of time, the prospect of being pulled off the case loomed large and such a result was abhorrent to every member of Ross"s small team. Even young Detective Constable McLennan appeared to have lost some of his normally infectious enthusiasm.
“We"re not going to just give up though, sir, are we?” the young D.C had asked. “I mean, it"s still a body, isn"t it, that is, I mean, I know it"s a skeleton, but it"s a victim, murdered, right? Our duty mu
