{"id":73,"date":"2017-12-22T10:33:49","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T10:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/detectivedalloway.com\/?p=73"},"modified":"2020-08-29T13:22:31","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T12:22:31","slug":"baby-cthuluh-pt-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/detectivedalloway.com\/2017\/12\/22\/baby-cthuluh-pt-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Cthuluh pt 1. Elgie’s contacts"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cElgie I\u2019ve got two more for you!\u201d, Detective Dalloway exclaimed as she burst through the office door excitedly. \u201c \u2018Opening up a can of worms\u2019 and even better \u2018Let sleeping dogs lie\u2019. What do you make of that!?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWonderful. Whatever do they mean? Where did you hear them?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was Mr Bladon. He\u2019s a man in a hole in the road, which he\u2019s digging. It\u2019s something to do with a huge pipe down there that shouldn\u2019t be there. He\u2019s fixing one that is, but his boss wants him to find out what the other one is for.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvidently it\u2019s something animals use in some way then, ranging from worms to dogs.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPerhaps it\u2019s a secret tunnel under the city?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, if there was a secret dog tunnel I\u2019d have heard of it through my network of contacts\u201d.<\/p>\n
Deirdre doubted this, although she didn\u2019t say so. Elgie\u2019s \u2018network\u2019 consisted of<\/p>\n
1\/ Percy, a mendacious pug who spent all day staring out of the window next door or chasing bicycles. His imagination was, if anything, even more fertile than Elgie\u2019s and he hadn\u2019t yet provided any reliable intelligence.<\/p>\n
2\/ Gruff – who lived on a barge which worked up and down the London canals all day. Because of this, Gruff knew other dogs all over town. Elgie had asked him to put the word about in relation to several cases, but Gruff always forgot and played cards and drank whiskey with his contacts instead. (Deidre didn\u2019t know yet, but Elgie was regularly losing money to Gruff).<\/p>\n
3\/ And Lulu, a black poodle who lived at the flower shop Deirdre liked to visit. Elgie had a big crush on Lulu, and whilst Lulu was very clever, Elgie had singularly failed to ask her questions of any use to them. (\u201cTruth be told\u201d, he had explained to Deidre, \u201cI\u2019ve only ever asked her what her favourite flower is\u201d).<\/p>\n
\u201cGruff will be of most use, I expect. Can you ask him?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEr, yes\u2026.I have to go and see him anyway\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cElgie I\u2019ve got two more for you!\u201d, Detective Dalloway exclaimed as she burst through the office door excitedly. \u201c \u2018Opening up a can of worms\u2019 and even better \u2018Let sleeping dogs lie\u2019. What do you make of that!?\u201d \u201cWonderful. Whatever do they mean? Where did you hear them?\u201d \u201cIt was Mr Bladon. He\u2019s a man … Continue reading “Baby Cthuluh pt 1. Elgie’s contacts”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/detectivedalloway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/detectivedalloway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/detectivedalloway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/detectivedalloway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/detectivedalloway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/detectivedalloway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229,"href":"https:\/\/detectivedalloway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/detectivedalloway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/detectivedalloway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/detectivedalloway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}