‘Aye, I knew Doris were cavorting, if that’s the right word, with Frankie Starling, who was no good scum long before this present mess come about, I mean the killing of that poor kiddie.’ Horace Sutton answered when Harding put the question to him in the butcher’s shop on Chapelgate.
,Harding noted, not for the first time, that it was the death of Rosie Palmer, rather than the shooting of Peter Cushman that most aroused peoples’ anger and Horace Sutton was no exception.
After leaving the ‘Turk’s Head’, Marcus made his way from Whinfell Street and across Redemption Bridge to where there was a blue police telephone box. Once inside, he called Endeavour House and reported what he had learned to Yarrow.
‘Good work, are you going to go and talk to that butcher now?’ It was an order phrased
