"Rag Doll" Daniel Cole. rag doll daniel cole rag doll

Daniel Cole

Ragdoll

Copyright © Daniel Cole 2017

© Lipka V., translation, 2017

© AST Publishing House LLC, 2017

What do I care if you're the devil?

Samantha Boyd ducked under the flimsy police fence and looked up at the statue of Justice that dominated London's infamous Old Bailey. Although she, according to the plan, was supposed to symbolize strength and justice, today the woman saw her in her true form - in the guise of a desperate and disillusioned lady, ready at any moment to fall from the roof down onto the pavement. Of course, she didn’t have a blindfold, unlike sisters around the world, because when it comes to issues such as racism and corruption in law enforcement agencies, "blind justice" becomes only a concept for naive simpletons.

Due to the crowd of journalists who flooded the center of London and settled so firmly that they even turned it into an absurd middle-class slum, all surrounding streets and tube stations were again closed. From the trash-strewn pavement, food cartons bearing the Marx and Spencer and Pret-à-Mange logos proudly looked out. To the buzz of electric shavers, famous designer sleeping bags were stowed away; a crappy travel iron in the hands of some guy absolutely refused to hide the fact that its owner slept in a shirt and tie that he had in a single copy.

Pushing through the crowd, Samantha was nervous. After six minutes of walking from Chancery Lane station, her forehead was perspiring, and a strand of platinum hair broke out in the very place where she had previously stabbed her in a futile attempt to change her appearance. The press identified all those involved in the trial from the very beginning. Today, on the forty-fifth day of the trial, the portraits of Samantha managed to fly around all the major newspapers in the world. She even somehow had to call the police when one particularly stubborn reporter followed her all the way to her home in Cleveland, not reacting in any way to her attempts to get rid of him. Determined not to draw any more unnecessary attention to herself, the woman walked, looking straight ahead and not raising her head.

There were two queues along Newgate Street, one leading to a row of dry closets that clearly couldn't meet the needs of everyone in need, the other to a blinking neon Starbucks coffee shop. Breaking free of the whirlpool that seethed between these two poles, Samantha moved towards the police guarding the entrance to the courtrooms. When she happened to be in the field of view of one of the cameras, dozens of reporting from the scene, a small journalist attacked her and angrily shouted something in Japanese.

Last day, Samantha reminded herself, leaving a stream of completely incomprehensible abuse in her wake. Some eight hours and her life will return to normal.

At the door, an unfamiliar policeman carefully examined her identity card and subjected her to a procedure now familiar to her: lock personal items in a special box; in response to the reaction of the metal detector, explain that she physically cannot remove wedding ring; inwardly annoyed at the sweat stains during the search, and then walk down the featureless corridor and join the other eleven jurors for a cup of lukewarm instant coffee.

Due to the unprecedented global media attention and the incident at Samantha's house, the jury decided to settle in one place under guard, which immediately aroused the anger of the public, because the bills issued by the hotel cost the taxpayers tens of thousands of pounds. They used to speak in the morning different topics, but now, after two months of hearing, each of them mainly complained about the monotony of the evening menu at the restaurant, about backache after spending the night in a hotel bed, and lamented about the absence of a wife, husband, children, or the final season of Lost - who lacked something.

When the bailiff finally came for the members of the jury, a tense silence, hidden by innocent chatter, broke free. foreman of the jury old man by the name of Stanley, whom the others had appointed to this position only because of his striking resemblance to Gandalf, slowly got up and left the room. Others followed him.

In the Old Bailey, the number one court in the world, only criminal cases of the highest importance were heard. Here, sinister celebrities such as Crippen, Sutcliffe and Dennis Nielsen were responsible for their terrible sins from the dock. Artificial light flooded the room through a huge frosted-glass window overhead, illuminating the dark wood paneling and green leather upholstery.

London is excited by a cruel crime - a terrible "doll" sewn from parts of human bodies was found in one of the apartments in the city center. Journalists have already dubbed the sadist the Rag Doll. But he does not stop there and teases the police by making public a list of his future victims and the exact dates of their death. Catch a psychopath is taken by William "Wolf" Leighton-Cokes, a detective with a scandalous biography. Can he prevent the deaths of the unfortunates on the Rag Doll's list when the whole world is watching his every move? And why is the detective himself on this list?

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London is excited by a cruel crime - a terrible "doll" sewn from parts of human bodies was found in one of the apartments in the city center. Journalists have already dubbed the sadist the Rag Doll. But he does not stop there and teases the police by making public a list of his future victims and the exact dates of their death. Catch a psychopath is taken by William "Wolf" Leighton-Cokes, a detective with a scandalous biography. Can he prevent the deaths of the unfortunates on the Rag Doll's list when the whole world is watching his every move? And why is the detective himself on this list?

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