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In the final section of the book, the murderer is shooting down at the Patrician's carriage as Vimes and Carrot manage to get the wounded Patrician back into the University, and guarded by the new Troll recruits. After a few moments Detritus also walks in, carrying the body of Cuddy the dwarf who had been stationed on the Tower of Art but had been pushed off the Tower and killed.

Vimes realizes that the murderer could be anyone, and that the only evidence they have is a scrap of black cloth in the hands of the dwarf Cuddy; that it must be an Assassin. This is coupled with the fact that, alongside the militia guards, the only ones on the roofs were Assassin's 'guarding' the Patrician. Carrot informs the crowd that they should announce that Edward d'Eath was the...