Poet in the Gutter – Chapter 50

Sam and Gus discover something intriguing in the cellar of a house in Leeds. Back in York Sam flirts with Jane Deacon and allows himself to make some headway.

Poet in the Gutter – Chapter 49

Bob Blackburn describes how he found Jean Granger’s body when he came home after a night on the booze.

Poet in the Gutter – Chapter 48

Sam goes on a picnic with Wanda and her daughters, without leaving the house.

Not the kind of day he’s used to, but might have managed to get away with it.

Poet in the Gutter – Chapter 47

Jean Granger, stoned, in her little house in Leeds listening to an old Leonard Cohen album when Frances comes to call with a knife in her handbag.

Pity about the music.

Poet in the Gutter – Chapter 46

Geordie does a runner – with Sam’s savings . . .

Poet in the Gutter – Chapter 45

Celia talks to Wanda about Sam Turner. Somebody is going to have to manage the man.

Poet in the Gutter – Chapter 44

Geordie and Barney in the Volvo outside Frances’s house. Surveillance experts. Watching the suspect. Later Geordie’s in his new flat having ‘lucinations.

Poet in the Gutter – Chapter 43

Sam dealing with Geordie in his new flat; and dealing with Jane Deacon in her old house. Thinking about his ex-wife, Brenda.

‘If you see her say hello, she might be in Tadcaster.’

Poet in the Gutter – Chapter 42

Frances talks to the police.

Poet in the Gutter – Chapter 41

Sam, Gus and Geordie do a little breaking-and-entering, nosing around, sniffing out the solution to the killer and the killings.