Chapter 20: No Day Off
Alec
It was Sunday, he realized, as he dropped Lew back at Deptford in the late morning light. Alec usually tried to take Sundays off. But this Sunday, he had to track down Mr. and Mrs. Alcester Senior and inform them of their son and daughter-in-law’s death.
He hated this kind of job when it was a standard “I am very sorry for your loss and this is what happened” approach. Who wouldn’t? This one though. This was going to be a twisted set of lies he had to tell the family and keep on telling.
“Do you want me to come with you?” Lew had asked, as the Model-T pulled up outside the laundry, streets still quiet, only the devout few making their way to late morning service.
It had been tempting. But this was a police responsibility, despite being mired in The Peculiar
