Inside Tetney Hall, Emery ordered six of the uniforms to search the upper rooms whilst he, Tombohm, Overton and Felipe Arnesto-Fernandes would search the ground floor and basement.
The ground-floor rooms were rapidly searched and they moved into the kitchen.
‘Here, sir,’ Carol Tombohm called as she pointed out where Hobson had written his initials in the dust. ‘At least we know he was here,’ she added.
‘Unless it’s from the first time he came,’ Emery said rather more sharply than he intended, still anxious as to whether he had made the right decision or not as Arnesto-Fernandes peered into the pantry and even inside the kitchen units.
‘OK, last place. The basement.’
The taint of evil, real or imagined, seemed to affect all the officers as they shone their torches around the corridor.
