The Piccadilly Butcher Part 3

By Stephen Shypitka

Profiler extraordinaire Jules Bright with a reputation to rival Sherlock Holmes is confronted by his failing health as he battles a serial killer terrifying Londoners whilst torn between a growing love for a young Met police officer.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Stephen Shypitka
• Release date: Apr 12, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005810719

Stephen Shypitka

Stephen's eBooks have sold across 4 continents in Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Jamaica, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, Switzerland the UK and the US. His online success has allowed his work to be noticed, read and savoured with his fiction for our times that turns heads, crosses genres and connects us all. Stephen was born in British Columbia, Canada an alumnus of USC film school in Los Angeles, he has taught the craft and loves to travel.

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The Piccadilly Butcher

By Stephen Shypitka

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Dedication

By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.

--Macbeth, William Shakespeare

CONTENTS PART III

Ruminating

Tenerife

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Ruminating

Back in his study on Lower Sloane, I snapped a photo of the latest case onto the wire much like a clothes horse, they all hung in chronological order. Mates often ask me what’s it like to be at the scene of the crime, dealing in death, in this particular case, his case, Mr Bright’s right ripper, such violence to be perpetrated against the human body, that the sex of the male is all but removed. Vanquished. Made me mates shiver and shudder at the thought of their willies being hacked away from them with groping pleading hands. All that we hold dear, most male, dearest, right mate? The results confirmed this poor bloke met his end on his birthday in his twentieth year. Can you only imagine and Mr Bright had missed the mark by one day? Impressive as ever so I thought. The birthday boy’s dental records identified him, Thomas White formerly from Kent. He left England’s garden of Eden for London’s big city dreams. Known as a local rent boy in trade in the back end muses of Frith Street, his dreams had obviously failed him.

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With that, the buzzer rang. It startled me as if it were all a dream. Seeing Alcott respond I knew that it wasn’t. He was fast upon the door like a good tin soldier. And there stood the two. It reminded me of the morning we first met, Price and MacCleary. Here it was the am once again. And Alcott had remained. Much to both our embarrassments. How was it possible? Had I blacked out once again from drink and he stayed? Sleeping on my chesterfield like Oliver Cromwell Lord Protector. I hadn’t asked him to remain. Or had I? I can’t remember. He was quite keen studying late into the night, all the while, I couldn’t help, but study him until exhaustion overwhelmed me. But what did it matter, I couldn’t sleep from all this heat, both real or imagined with him just yards