Interlude: 1920–21After that, Lew had a few months where between his two jobs, he was running round in circles. There was an outbreak of gang violence in the East End and he ended up interviewing one of the widows. She was resigned rather than distraught, had known the possibility of her husband meeting a sticky end was on the cards; he didn’t really get enough for a story out of her, but he thought it might be background. The house was full of neighbors all giving him the side eye and he quickly made tracks.
It made it worse that he’d photographed her husband’s body the night before. McGovern had introduced him to a friend of his, a superintendent at Scotland Yard, a few months before. Mac had told him he thought he could do with the money, and it would be doing Mac a favor, too, as he’d
