Enter Second Murderer by Alanna Knight

Worth investigating.
    6. Would an infatuated schoolboy who hung about watching for Goldie be able to throw any light on her last hours, always presuming that he could be tracked down at St. Leonard's?
    7. Clara Burnleigh. Did the fact that she had given a false address, and was probably using a false name, have some bearing on Goldie's murder? Is she still alive or is she the third victim at present lying in the mortuary? If so, then we are dealing with a serious wave of murders, and we can expect more of them until the assassin is apprehended.
     
    After some thought, Faro added another name:
     
    8. Danny McQuinn. He had an intimate knowledge of the convent, had access as a respected protégé of the Reverend Mother, and was a former gardener and odd job man. According to the two maids, he was "sweet" on Goldie. Is his incomplete evidence deliberate, is he hiding something—or someone? The fact that McQuinn is a policeman does not exclude him from a fit of murderous rage.
     
    Faro threw down his pen. Religious houses, he decided, were naturally secretive places, a boon to prospective murderers and the perfect settings for concealing evidence. Secular staff were not permitted gentleman callers. Therefore all social activities of normal young unmarried women who were not in holy orders had to be carried on sub rosa , which made tracking down a murderer even more difficult. Boarding schools were just a little behind convents in natural reticence regarding their inmates.
    Faro shuddered at the prospect of investigating a boys' school. The headmaster, he expected, would be equally uncooperative as the Reverend Mother—and for good reason. His school might be tainted by association, however obscure, with a murder. If one of his pupils had been in contact with the murdered woman, then the headmaster wouldn't wish to know officially, and would certainly resist, with every means in his power, any attempt to make this insalubrious association public knowledge.
    Reading through the account again, Faro underlined the Mad Baronet. He lived within easy access of the convent, and Lily Goldie had been known to visit Solomon's Tower. Unlikely as it seemed at first thought, this line of enquiry, which had not been investigated, thanks to McQuinn's apparent incompetence, might be pursued with profit.
    He did not wait up for Vince that night. He did not want to hear all he had missed, and a ravishing account of Alison Aird as Lady Macbeth. He was relieved, too, when Vince did not appear for breakfast, having left a note for Mrs. Brook that he had retired very late and wished to sleep on undisturbed.

Chapter 9
     
    On arrival at the Central Office, Faro was handed the description he had been waiting for:
     
    Aged between eighteen and twenty-four. Five-foot-two in height. Curly red hair, several front teeth missing, body in poor condition, shows evidence of undernourishment, in fourth month of pregnancy. No marks of violence. Death by drowning.
     
    Obviously a suicide, unless she had been taken out in a boat and pushed into the river. Could this poor creature have been Clara Burnleigh, and had pregnancy been her reason for running away?
    At the convent, the Reverend Mother received him with even less grace than the first time, if that were possible. Staring out of the window, drumming her fingers impatiently on the desk, she listened tight-lipped to his account of the visit to Fairmilehead.
    "I have no other information than what I gave you. Inspector. I am not concealing evidence, if that is what you think, to protect the reputation of the convent, which, alas, thanks to police meddling, seems unlikely to survive these shattering blows."
    Cutting short his apologies, she demanded, "And now, Inspector, what is it you wish me to do?"
    Explaining that the body of a woman had been washed up at Cramond, he asked, "Could you identify Miss Burnleigh from this description?"
    Reading quickly, she pushed it aside with distaste. "Whoever this