Golly's

Tommy Livermore grabbed at one of Golly's wrists, lifted one arm behind his back bending him forward, and shouting in fury at the man who had taken too many souls already.

Bottled Spider Gardner, John 2002

One look at Golly's face and they'd beat all records running from the flat.

Bottled Spider Gardner, John 2002

"Golly's out of control, heart," he said, and told her they'd found the battered body of Ailsa Goldfinch in her cottage.

Bottled Spider Gardner, John 2002

By this time (it was nine o'clock in the evening) Suzie found it all too much, surrounded as she was by the ghosts of Golly's victims whom Dandy Tom had conjured from their graves.

Bottled Spider Gardner, John 2002

Golly's reappearance was unlikely as yet, the Detective Chief Superintendent said.

Bottled Spider Gardner, John 2002

She had come out on to the street still with the truncheon raised, her body moving, from left to right, eyes everywhere, glancing behind her, then amidst the other noise she heard boots heavy on the pavement as Golly's footsteps winnowed away, deflected by other noises.

Bottled Spider Gardner, John 2002

Took her to some place for 'bad girls' in the country The daughter must be forty-one or two now, and Golly's forty.

Bottled Spider Gardner, John 2002

Golly's as cunning as a bag full of blue-based baboons.

Bottled Spider Gardner, John 2002

"Turns out that Golly's out of London at the moment."

Bottled Spider Gardner, John 2002

She brought a fist down hard on the back of Golly's photograph.

Bottled Spider Gardner, John 2002