He fell over the stone chair. The old housekeeper had succumbed to her fright and was very ill. It would have taken two killers to slay a man with a garrotte, sam had calculated, one to restrain the victim while the other screwed the cutting bolt into his spinal cord.
But it was up to the jury now, and no doubt all hung on the direction they would receive from the venerable coleridge.
Red blood stained the black water.