- A young woman is menaced in a graveyard but her stalker is slain by an assassin, who runs away. Next morning a human face is found in an art gallery exhibiting the works of Sebastian Marlowe, the body being later fished from a river. Numerous tattoos on body and face identify the dead man as Nikolay Baldaev, a member of the Russian Mafia and, on the house-to-house enquiry butcher Anjit Marsud and his daughter Sabina deny knowing him but appear to be lying. Chandler establishes that Sebastian Marlowe does not exist, the work being created by his supposed assistant Abigail Perkins, a young woman with a disfiguring birth-mark on her face. Then mechanic Harry Barnett is also killed and flayed, the same sequence of letters found in his house as in the gallery and a third victim, another tattooed man, is also taken. At the same time the police station is beset by power cuts, floods and mildew and Wingfield's notes which were sent to Chandler after his suicide reveal that he was investigating the same crimes as the police.—don @ minifie-1
- The police investigate the murder of a man whose skin has been removed and put on display in a museum. The dead man was heavily tattooed and it leads to him being identified as Nikolay Baldaev, a Russian mobster. Buchan meanwhile continues to go through Wingfield's documents that suggest a broader pattern to the crime that occurs in Whitechapel. Chandler interviews Abigail Perkins who works for Sebastian Marlowe in whose art gallery Baldaev's face was found but she has little to offer. The police soon have a lead when mechanic Harry Barnett's fingerprints are found at the scene of the crime. They track him down but all they find is his flayed corpse with the pathologist estimating that Barnett had been dead for 8 to 10 days.—garykmcd
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