FORTY-NINE
He had decided.
He must receive the recognition due to him.
That necessity, that absolute necessity meant bringing the Great Plan forward, to strike sooner than he had intended.
But it was now an imperative.
His genius must be acclaimed.
His crimes should be shouted from the rooftops as the greatest murder mystery in the history of crime.
Books, films, documentaries were all his due.
Anonymously of course, they would never ever catch him. Such a possibility did not exist.
No one could ever suspect him in the slightest.
He would walk amongst them, a colossus unparalleled in the annals of crime and they would have no idea, not the remotest inkling that he was standing there in plain sight, their meagre intellects too stupid to realise.
The time had come.
And he had dec
