Chapter 11
WITH A SIGH, CHARLES COLLINGWOOD LAID ASIDE THE FILE on Susan Siddons. He looked at the pile of other documentation that Gimlet and PC Maggs were trying to collate into their original files.
At random, he picked a loose document from an unsorted pile at random. It was a copy of his report, prepared some weeks after the murder of Susan Siddons, summarising the progress of the case to that date. In essence, there had been no substantive progress.
There were names in the report. Names given by informants, but informants often had a grudge to bear and named people they disliked out of spite or revenge. There was no evidence connecting any of those named (by unknown informants) with the murders and Collingwood had to surmise that most of the information was malicious in intent, bu
