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‘Told you this was pointless,’ Frank Vine announced to no-one in particular as he huffed and puffed and sat back in his chair. ‘Bloody Land Registry’s website is down for maintenance and there’s no-one on the phones until eight o’clock.’
Frank had been threatening retirement for a few years now, but had never actually gone through with it. He’d recently started making more noises about it to Culverhouse but the DCI knew that Frank was a creature of habit, and that retiring and moving away was probably just a pipe dream for him. Besides which, the amount of work he actually contributed was more or less akin to him not being there anyway.
‘Nothing on the PNC?’ DS Steve Wing asked. If the address had been linked with any investigations or reports of crimes in the past, the Police Nationa
