It was late at night.
DI Yarrow was alone in his office, the CID room was empty apart from DC Eric Pickles, who was rotated on night duty. Pickles was not involved in the case, for which Yarrow was relieved. Pickles was overweight and lazy with an inflated sense of his own importance. Yarrow would like to move him out elsewhere, but he was a nephew of DCC Wilfred Pole and so untouchable, at least for the time being.
Yarrow looked across the CID room at him, he seemed to asleep, so at least he could do no harm like that and he was left undisturbed.
Once again, the DI read through the case files, from the initial reports of the shooting and aborted robbery, the deaths of Peter Cushman and Rosie Palmer, the burnt out getaway car and the vital discovery of the shotgun cartridge with the fi
