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description: The scene is The Blue Boar in the High Street Lulverton. The occasion: the stag party planned to celebrate Sergeant Bert Martin's retirement after thirty years' service. It was good while it lasted said Bert putting down his empty tankard with a reflective sigh. Bein' in the Force I mean. Lookin' back over the long vista of the years... But Bert had still until midnight before Bradfield was due to step into his shoes. At nine twenty-five Jimmy Hooker was still very much alive if a little the worse for wear when he barged in on the party in the upstairs room. At closing time he was dead in the saloon. And I don't think said 'Pop' Collins licensee of the Blue Boar that it was in the way of nature.
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title: Dead on Time
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