71.   Also, the libraries and record offices contain plans of these houses along with a vast amount of pictures of Edinburgh.

72.   The houses with their heavy wooden windows leaned over the street until they almost touched in the middle, making it always cool and dark.

73.   The brothel resembled an old abandoned house with the scuttle of rats across the floorboards and the moth-eaten curtains.

74.   One bright sunny morning recently I set about painting the front of the house with its yearly coat of white paint to smarten it up.

75.   Ever since I can remember there have been little stickers of white paper all over the house with neat black-biro writing on them.

76.   For the moment Morse made no reply, staring back at the house with a slightly puzzled air.

77.   There were houses with gardens on his left.

78.   Houses with black oak timbers were old, they decided, but they were confused by mock-Tudor black and white timbered buildings of the interwar period.

79.   Secure on to the long sides of the house with a little royal icing.

80.   Stick sweets into a door shape at the front of the house with royal icing.