Dalgliesh and Massingham are sitting in a car in the spot where Inspector Doyle parks for his liaison with Mrs. Meakins. The two men just begin to talk about the case when they hear the three rings of the chapel bell that Brenda just rang.
The two detectives rush a mile and a half in their car to come as close to the chapel as possible. When they open the door, they spy Stella Mawson's dangling body. In concert, they remove her and begin resuscitation, only to realize she is quite deceased. They hear a moan and Dalgliesh finds a incoherent Brenda Pridmore, who states that the murderer was waiting for her in the new lab. Dalgliesh searches the chapel and finds no humans, but does discover the.....
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