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Gun Street Girl 120-160

Enjoying this very much.  Duffy continues to pursue an ever-thickening plot.  Kelly, who is the supposed murderer of his parents, has killed himself by jumping to his death. Now Kelly's girlfriend of a few months, supposedly distraught by his death, kills herself (CO).  No, no, no.

Duffy goes to London.  Kelly's roommates and posh clubs at Oxford.  Wild party, girl dies of heroin. Kelly and German friend stay to talk to the police.  Well connected friend leaves and avoids publicity.  Oxford, English police also seem to be covering up . . . something.  Gun Street Girl, actually M16 operative, offers Duffy a job, sleeps with him, tells him not to waste time on an "unimportant" murder investigation.

Duffy makes a deal with the roommate of the girl who killed herself.  She gets off on an assault charge by giving him information about a man who she saw near Kelly's girlfriend the day she "committed suicide."  Coroner finds chloroform in her lungs.   Duffy won't be turned from the trail even by the offer of a great job, or the bumbling uncooperativeness of the Oxford police.

Undercurrent of prejudice against all Irish in England, of protestants against catholics in NI, etc.  Terrific so far.

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