Status Updates From Last Respects (Inspector Sl...

“What he had just said to the policeman was a complete fabrication from start to finish. Left to itself the body…might continue on its course up river…for the length of a tide or two but then either the change in the tide or the river current would pick it up and bring it back downstream again. Then the timeless eddies of the sea would lay it up on Billy’s Finger as they had always done since time began.”