Tag Archives: dead

Deadly dressmaker on the loose (Rousse)

Posted on January 25, 2016 by Dreamaticus

There was a deadly dressmaker on the loose and I was in big trouble. This was not because I was a likely victim. Rather, in the past I had been seen running the cycle paths of Leith with the notorious … Continue reading →

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Return from the dead in an empty multi-storey car park (Rousse)

Posted on January 17, 2016 by Dreamaticus

BMcK emerged through the gloom of the bottom level of an empty multi-storey car park. “Go away!” I shrieked. “You’re meant to be dead!”.

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Breaches in mourning etiquette (Rousse)

Posted on January 3, 2016 by Dreamaticus

Many of the congregation were obviously bored at yet another memorial service. I even saw some relatives of the dead video the proceedings from the upper gallery of the church. Mourning was not what it used to be.

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Crash victim bodies buried in moorland peat bog (Rousse)

Posted on October 19, 2015 by Dreamaticus

My father told us that we should go up to the moors and remove all the evidence of the car crash. His main concern was that the wreckage and bodies that my sister S and I had buried in the … Continue reading →

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Jimmy Savile ‘in hibernation’ (Rousse)

Posted on September 2, 2015 by Dreamaticus

Jimmy Savile was not dead. I learnt this from a tweet in French. It translated as ‘How astonishing that Jimmy Savile has been in hibernation for all this time’. The tweet was one amongst hundreds collected in a book of … Continue reading →

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Monk murderer disposes of weapons in sewer (Rousse)

Posted on July 1, 2015 by Dreamaticus

In the dead of night I disposed of the murder weapons down sewers accessed from the gym cellars. I knew that I would be in big trouble if I were caught, but at least I had not killed anyone myself … Continue reading →

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A superhero in a silk top (Rousse)

Posted on June 19, 2015 by Dreamaticus

The knife sliced through DT’s blue and black silk top and into her skin – but I knew that she would survive because we’d been through this before. Cowering on the bed in the corner, I predicted correctly DT would … Continue reading →

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Harold Wilson’s women (Rousse)

Posted on May 19, 2015 by Dreamaticus

Harold Wilson had a wife and a mistress, yet I still accepted his generous invitation to become his girlfriend. (That he was dead was an irrelevant detail.)

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Long-dead grandmother turns up in Queen’s bedroom (Rousse)

Posted on May 1, 2015 by Dreamaticus

My parents’ vast house was designated the most appropriate venue for the 18th and 21st birthday celebrations of my niece and nephew. The first arrivals – a bunch of gorgeous young men in dinner suits who had travelled up from … Continue reading →

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Early funeral arrangements (Rousse)

Posted on March 11, 2015 by Dreamaticus

With very poor knowledge of the geography of the south of England I had hoped for more help from the red-uniformed staff on the newly-appointed Virgin East Coast service. The overweight guard pulled out a section of an Ordnance Survey … Continue reading →

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