The Resident Patient: The Undertakers

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Title: The Resident Patient: The Undertakers
Author: gardnerhill                        
Word Count: 60                     
Rating: G
Warning: None
Summary: “…and with my aid and that of the inspector [Holmes] cut down the wretched object and laid it reverently under a sheet.”

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“Never gets easier, does it,” Lanner said in his beer.

I followed the inspector’s lead with my own pint. “No matter how many bodies you cut down or drag out of a river.”

“Sutton was a bank robber, a killer and a contemptible coward.” Holmes paused, before lifting his own glass. “Nevertheless, Inspector, you’re quite right; it never gets easier.”

The Resident Patient

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This week we are reading The Resident Patient.

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The Resident Patient

[alafaye]

This week we are reading The Resident Patient.

Discuss in the comments.