- Chandler and Miles attend the launch of Buchan's book on murders in Whitechapel, where they are baffled by cryptic remarks made by an eccentric old lady, Louise Iver. At the same time, elderly vagrant Alexander Zukanov is lured to a house with strange markings on the wall where he is pressed to death, giving the name Dorothy Cade to his killer before he dies. Miles and Chandler visit Zukanov's doss-house and learn that the other occupants were frightened of him and regarded him as a warlock. Buchan confirms that Zukanov was a member of the Bulgarian secret service and Stella Knight from MI-6 names him as having been an interrogator of a former British spy, Crispin Wingfield. Wingfield is questioned but released, though he tells the police that the manner of Zukanov's death was a punishment for witches in the 16th century. Meanwhile, Dorothy Cade, living with her sister Cecilia, is also murdered, burned at the stake like a medieval witch.—don @ minifie-1
- DI Chandler and DS Miles investigate the murder of Alexander Zukanov, a 62-year-old homeless man who was lured to an abandoned building and crushed to death. Also found dead at the scene was Zukanov's pet rat. The pathologist finds several old wounds on his body, but she believes he had had access to good medical care. She also notes that the rat had been tortured. Zuchanov was living in an abandoned building. Based on what they find there, Edward Buchan concludes that Zukanov was a member of the Bulgarian secret police and Stella Knight from MI-6 confirms that Zuchanov may have tortured one of their former agents, who when questioned suggests the method by which Zuchanov had been murdered was used to kill witches in the 16th century. The police may have a related murder when an elderly woman is found burned at the stake.—garykmcd
- Homeless Bulgarian Alexander Zukanov (62) beats off an assailant but is tricked and tortured to death in a ruin, to make him reveal the name of crone Dorothy Cade. Zukanov had been a Cold War spy, so the case arouses the interest of MI-6 agent Stella Knight, who messes with Chandler's investigation and points to "rogue ex-spy" Crispin Wingfield. After Cade's torturous death on a stake in her garden, elusive Wingfield gives his own creepy theory.—KGF Vissers
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