The Piccadilly Butcher Part 4

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: 9781005242114

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 IV

Le Boudin Blanc

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Le Boudin Blanc

Back at Le Boudin Blanc. Treadaway started our conversation by spying Lawrence, my bodyguard.

So against my advice you have put yourself in harm’s way?

I’ve taken your script. I thought you would be happy?

I’m talking about the case, Jules. You are far too fragile. With that, he leant into me. Frankly, if the Yard knew what I knew. Another look to Alcott who stood distant out of reach of our conversation, but on guard like a young lion. Your frontal lobe, your centre of reasoning is off. But you know that?

So are you going to tell them and let them be done with me again?

No, I should. If they were to see your medical condition there is no way they could trust your judgment. Your sense of reality is unravelling?

Yes. What more should I say or admit to? Counselling? Treatment?

No, your rate of recidivism is far too great. You are the unlucky fifteen per cent of alcoholics, Jules. Your mortality is at stake and the pressure you are under with this case—

So what is to become of us?

Akin to Shakespeare’s death. I predict you are heading for a cerebral incident. I suggest a marked thickening of the left temporal artery–the source of your clustered headaches. A sign of atheroma and arteriosclerosis; and such termination is quite common in men who have undergone such continuous mental and physical strain over a prolonged period as you have been subjected to throughout this, undoubtedly, strenuous career.

"Well someone must do the heavy lifting doctor. There