Butchers and Other Stories of Crime

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‘How Mr. Smith Traced His Ancestors’ in The Mystery Guild Anthology, Book Club Associates, 1980;

‘The Locked Room’ in Winter’s Crimes 10, Macmillan, 1978;

‘The Secret Lover’ in Winter’s Crimes 17, Macmillan, 1985;

‘The Virgin and the Bull’ in John Creasey’s Crime Collection, Gollancz, 1983;

‘Vandals’ in Woman’s Own, 1984;

‘Woman and Home’ (as ‘Taking Possession’) in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, 1982.

‘The Corder Figure’, ‘Private Gorman’s Luck’, ‘The Staring Man’ and ‘Trace of Spice’ were first published in this collection.

He had passed the weekend in the cold store of Pugh the butcher’s. It was now Monday morning. The door was still shut. He was unconcerned. Quite early on Saturday evening he had given up beating his fists on the door and screaming for help. He had soon tired of jumping and arm-swinging to keep his circulation going. He had become increasingly drowsy as his brain had succumbed to the deprivation of oxygen. He had lain on the tiled floor below the glistening carcases and by Sunday morning he had frozen to death.

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