Chapter 8
POLICE THEORYT
HE famous teaching hospital of St. Joan’s in the West stands almost next door to the new police station in the Barrow Road. Charlie Luke and Mr. Albert Campion went to the Institution together in a police car immediately after the call came through on the Superintendent’s newly installed private line from the Garden Green area.
They were met in the vestibule by the man who had telephoned. This was Detective-Sergeant Picot, who was an old friend and colleague of Luke’s. He came forward as they entered, a square heavy man who, at the moment at any rate, seemed beset with the deepest misgivings. He forced a smile as they appeared and his handshakes were hearty, but he was not at all happy and as soon as he had edged them into a reasonably secluded corner he came ou
