Condition Purple
by Peter Turnbull
In Glasgow one summer evening a young woman is frightened ... longing for the darkness which she can clutch to her like a comfort blanket.The man who will kill her when he sees her is in the city somewhere. She knows
this because she has seen his car cruising in the grid system, and she
knows he knows where to find her because she stands every evening in an
alley off Blythswood Street.
The woman is just twenty-one years old. It is her death that will
trigger P Division’s latest investigation.
She was found at l0.00pm, the knife still in her throat. She was a
heroin addict and had the words `I belong to Dino' tattooed on her
groin. They were the only clues. Yet as the police interviewed anyone in
any way connected with her, combed the area, collated evidence, they
began to build up a picture of the dead girl, her associates, family,
lifestyle, which led to the arrest of a vicious murderer who had killed
and would kill again.
this because she has seen his car cruising in the grid system, and she
knows he knows where to find her because she stands every evening in an
alley off Blythswood Street.
The woman is just twenty-one years old. It is her death that will
trigger P Division’s latest investigation.
She was found at l0.00pm, the knife still in her throat. She was a
heroin addict and had the words `I belong to Dino' tattooed on her
groin. They were the only clues. Yet as the police interviewed anyone in
any way connected with her, combed the area, collated evidence, they
began to build up a picture of the dead girl, her associates, family,
lifestyle, which led to the arrest of a vicious murderer who had killed
and would kill again.