55 2nd November
It had all gone quiet on the Western Front. He wasn’t surprised; he didn’t have much faith in the police these days.
The Victorian police had an excuse: they were living and working in a time in which recent advances in forensic science and criminal profiling hadn’t been made. They had that against them. The police of today didn’t have that excuse. They had all the tools at their disposal, all the evidence and clues they needed and they still weren’t capable.
He wasn’t upset. He was quite pleased, actually. He’d predicted this might be the case. As a citizen, of course, he was dismayed, but that didn’t matter too much. He wouldn’t be a citizen for long.
He’d read all of the newspapers that day as a matter of course, like he did every day. He’d browsed through all of the
