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By Lionel Davidson
Lionel Davidson. The Chelsea Murders. London: Jonathan Cape, 1978
A gruesome determine burst into the girl's room. Its head piled with pretend curls, its face hid in the back of a smiling masks, it wore the rubber gloves of a health professional or even a mortuary attendant. It seized the woman from at the back of and chloroformed, suffocated, and at last, decapitated her.
Hers was once just one in a sequence of horrendous murders by means of a killer who performed video games with the police, consistently mailing them cryptic bits of poetry—baffling clues to the identification of his subsequent sufferer.
"A milestone within the genre."
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It’s not even under glass or behind ropes. It’s all just amazingly here. Until I saw some of it broken, I hadn’t really understood. I’m here, you know? And this is all real, real enough that if you bump into it something could break. ” She was beatific with the memory. Then she grinned and snapped out of it. ” she said. I smiled back. I just stretched my face and held it tight. I was remembering something broken too. I never should have closed my eyes. ” she asked. ” I didn’t answer right away.
That’s all. I said to her, “I had a baby dress like this. ” I said it in a nice voice, and in a complimentary way. ” which was a reasonable question, except that the way she asked it was like a wild animal sniffing the air. She was looking for a fight immediately. ” “It looks like a Christmas picture,” I described, trying to be helpful. “You’re sitting on a couch, holding an ornament, I think. ” Gretchen pressed her lips together, then squeezed out the words: “I remember that. I wore a plain purple dress.
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