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She looked at him. 'Not a word outside this car, mind you, but is he ever.
"Come back ACC Elder," that's the word around my office.'

'Why did Jim Elder go in the first place? It was a real shock when he
chucked it.'

'I have no idea. He just walked into my room one Monday morning a
few months back and told me that he was leaving at the end of that week.
No reason, no nothing.'

'Didn't Bob Skinner let anything slip?'

'Not a whisper. And if he wants me to know something he always tells
me, so I know better than to ask.'

She sighed. 'Whatever happened, now we've got the new guy! God,
he's Supercop, if ever there was such a creature. You know the first thing
he did?' Fired up, she answered her own question. 'He appointed Jack
Good as his exec., without consulting anyone.'

Pye gasped in surprise. 'Eh? He just did it? He pulled him out of his
other job just like that?'

'That's right. Jim Elder never had an exec., but that didn't bother Ted
Chase. He'd been through the door for no more than a fortnight before he
had one. The worst thing of all was that he did it while the Chief was on
holiday. Mr Skinner came in one morning and found Jack Good in Neil
Mcllhenney's office. When he asked him what he was doing there and
Good told him, he went straight to the ACC's room. I was there at the time;
Mr Skinner asked him what it was all about nd Mr Chase as good as told
him it was none of his business.

'For a moment the DCC looked as if he was about to explode, but he just
turned and walked out. Next day he had Good moved out of Neil's office
into a room of his own ... Neil can't stand Jack Good ... but it was on the
floor below, and Mr Chase complained to the Chief when he came back. So
a CID man was moved out to make room for him.'

Pye frowned. 'Remind me. Where.did Chase come from?'

'He was an Assistant Chief in Cumbria. The job was advertised
throughout Britain and he applied. Between you and me, I was surprised
that Mr Martin didn't go for it.'

'I wasn't, but never mind. Jesus, does this guy have any idea who he's

AUTOGRAPHS IN THE RAIN