Chapter 20
METROPOLITAN POLICE, SCOTLAND YARD, 4, WHITEHALL PLACE, LONDON
CENTRAL OFFICE: CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION DEPARTMENT
‘IS THAT NOT THE MOST FANTASTICAL and unbelievable tale you have ever been told,’ Collingwood asked Sergeant Patrick Flanagan, recently transferred from the Irish Special Branch at the behest of Monro to replace Gimlet. This would be the last act of assistance that Monro could offer; he had finally resigned after incessant disagreements with Commissioner Warren over the independence of the CID. Collingwood had lost a staunch ally and he knew Monro’s replacement, Robert Anderson, previously the Secretary of the Prisons Commissioners, only by name.
Collingwood had just that week returned to duty, more than five weeks since his ordeal in the cellars of Blackwater Hou
