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hideous decomposition. Instead, and to his surprise, the old man's body
was more or less intact, if a strange waxy colour, and if one ignored the
strips of what looked like skin, floating on the surface. He looked almost
like a statue, carved out of soap.

The young sergeant reached across the small bathroom and opened the
ventilation panel set in the window, then stepped back out into the hall and
closed the door behind him.

There was a phone in the hall. He picked it up, but to his surprise, the
line was dead. Instead, he took out his hand-phone and dialled the main


switchboard of his Edinburgh k .

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