This time the body had been identified by one of his men, and almost within the hour he had discovered a series of events that exactly paralleled those that preceded the first murder. A young man looking for a woman, seemingly finding one, and then being brutally stabbed to death and robbed in an alleyway. The only substantial difference from the first murder was the mutilation of the body. Skynner tried not to dwell on the images that he had so gleefully recited to Privv. It took him a few moments to set aside his emotion and bring his mind to the problem.
Of course it was the same murderer, he thought. Apart from the similar circumstances, there had been the same awful expression on the victim’s face. He gazed hard into the memory of it to inure himself. It was not easy.
Nor did he fin
