25 16th September
Culverhouse was kicking himself for having told Hawes he’d know within a week whether the murders were linked or not. He hated committing himself to timeframes, knowing that most complicated CID cases were completely outside the normal realms of time. More often than not, things would be resolved when they were resolved.
He planned to try and steer the Chief Constable away from that particular line of conversation today, even though he’d been specifically called in to see him exactly six days after he’d promised him a decision within a week.
His plan to skirt around the conversation was thwarted straight away as Hawes got straight to the point once again.
‘So, what are you going to do, Jack?’
‘How do you mean, sir?’
‘The two cases. What have you got? Are they linked
