31.   Benjamin muttered the Requiem, stared at the mottled-hued face and carefully examined the wrists of the dead man.

32.   The scenes-of-crime officers had photographed the dead man and the ground for some distance around.

33.   Looking down at the dead man Wycliffe felt guilty because he was experiencing a sense of mild elation.

34.   Wycliffe felt that he was getting to know the people who had been closest to the dead man.

35.   In the afternoon he visited various people who had been on friendly terms with the dead man.

36.   The dead man was found with stab wounds in a house at Quedgeley in Gloucester over the weekend.

37.   The dead man, a friend of Mrs Lundburg, came from Liden in Swindon.

38.   The dead man was described in court as a recent friend of Mrs Lundberg.

39.   Police say the dead man was in his twenties.

40.   The dead man is believed to be Stuart Jobson.