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  • Problems now arise for Bendix as he tries to control his loving urges for Amelia, and at the same time fighting with the doctor to find a cure for her disease; meanwhile in the back of his mind hangs the issue of how he is going to tell Calcraft of his love for his daughter.

    2010 April 03 « The BookBanter Blog 2010

  • “[Calcraft and I] first met as teenagers, in the days of Wham! and the New Romantics, the era of guyliner, MC Hammer trousers, and big hair,” Buck says.

    REN for Your Life!: Sophie Dawson Dawson, Sophie 2008

  • Dnlgliesh said, 'If it does, then why did Calcraft wait for this iVtu? kend?

    The Lighthouse James, P. D. 1988

  • Kate said, 'But it does look as if Calcraft may have had to act this weekend.

    The Lighthouse James, P. D. 1988

  • Kate said, 'So we're unlikely to get anything useful from the rope except that Calcraft must have thought that the lab could raise fingerprints from the surface so he isn't ignorant of forensics.

    The Lighthouse James, P. D. 1988

  • Calcraft could have gone to the lighthouse either because he'd made a separate appointment with Oliver - which seems an unlikely coincidence although we've known more unbelievable ones - or because he read the note and changed the time, or because, fortuitously, he saw Oliver on his way and followed him.

    The Lighthouse James, P. D. 1988

  • Of course, Calcraft could have destroyed the original note and substituted another.

    The Lighthouse James, P. D. 1988

  • Benton said, 'Or there's Calcraft, the nineteenth-century hangman.'

    The Lighthouse James, P. D. 1988

  • Calcraft must therefore have sufficient strength, if not to carry Oliver's dead weight up one short flight of stairs, at least to push him over the railings.

    The Lighthouse James, P. D. 1988

  • Calcraft then fetched the climbing rope, knotted it round Oliver's neck, tied the rope to the railings and heaved the body over.

    The Lighthouse James, P. D. 1988

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