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Derriford Hospital was, as all hospitals were, endless corridors with too many doors and unpronounceable signs leading to waiting rooms packed with glum people watching daytime TV or reading magazines months out of date. Slim made his way through the labyrinth to the intensive care unit where he sought out a duty doctor.
There were times when it was best to wear a disguise and others when total honesty was most important. Slim stripped himself down layer by layer, telling the doctor how he’d come to Cornwall to recover from his own problems but had got involved with the mystery of Amos Birch’s disappearance, which eventually led him to Celia. Had he known she was stealing cars to meet him he would have left her alone, and he blamed himself for her accident.
With the doctor’s ear turn
