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CHARLES DICKENS SLEPT here’: it was painted over the door of his room. In the morning, Gently was inclined to add: ‘And George Gently Didn’t’.

‘Just bear it in mind, that’s my advice. Don’t lock people up in watertight compartments and kid yourself they’re going to stay there. That way you’ll only puzzle yourself and make a mystery of the plainest evidence. People are icebergs. Below the surface there’s eight-ninths you never see.’