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“made Peter Rachman look like Peter Pan. But Darke was as slippery as an eel in butter. And Figgis was right: Brighton's police had never been able to pin any criminal charges on him.”
― Peter Bartram, Murder from the Newsdesk: Seven Crampton of the Chronicle mystery stories

“couldn’t get warm. She wore thermal underwear and had one of those puffy jackets that made her look like a snowman, but it seemed nothing could defrost her bones. She blew warm air into her hands as she waited”
― Kate Forster, Hashtag Love

“The biscuit? A jammie dodger, presumably,” I said. We were in Figgis' office. The date on his wall calendar said Monday”
― Peter Bartram, Murder from the Newsdesk: Seven Crampton of the Chronicle mystery stories

“be sad types who'd got themselves arrested on Saturday night for being drunk and disorderly. There were a couple of street tarts who'd been picked up - probably because”
― Peter Bartram, Murder from the Newsdesk: Seven Crampton of the Chronicle mystery stories