The Wistful Cipher

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The rain did not fall so much as it insisted, a relentless, cold sheet of grey water that turned the streets of London into a slurry of mud and broken glass, and within the iron lungs of the old police station on Whitechapel Road, the air was thick with the scent of wet wool, stale tobacco, and the metallic tang of a wound that would not close. Inspector Thomas Ashworth sat hunched over a desk...

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