CHANNILLO

A Month of Murder
By David Baker
4/2/20 May 1 2019: Just Another Day
4/6/20 May 2 Morning: Coming Home
4/8/20 May 2 Afternoon and Evening: Frustration All Round
4/13/20 May 3 Morning: Not All Bad News; Some Dates for the Diary
4/21/20 May 3 Afternoon: a Case Review, a Last Visit, a Promised Revenge
4/24/20 May 3 Evening: Reminiscence, Replay, Reminder
4/27/20 May 4 Morning: Awake, My Soul; Vendettas in Riddles; Wright in Love
4/30/20 May 4 Afternoon: Back to 1976; A Warm Welcome; Final Preparations for an Organist
5/2/20 May 4 Evening: A Holidaymaker Returns; Playing Trains; A Slow Evening Reviewed
5/6/20 May 5 Morning: 'On Sundays I take my rest...'
5/9/20 May 5: Three Sunday Lunches
5/11/20 May 5 Afternoon: A Winning Draw
5/16/20 May 5 Evening: Gelsthorpe rants; Wright is saved; two hands need an owner
5/20/20 May 6 Morning: a New Man makes decisions; Monday Review at the CID; Lancashire Lasses has an angry caller
5/22/20 May 6: A liquid lunch brings a turn up for the books
6/2/20 May 6 Afternoon and Evening: Intruders break into Salem; Philbey loses a book; Welch and Gelsthorpe are uncooperative
6/7/20 May 7 Morning: Riddles begins to give up its secrets; May and his team remain unconvinced; Dooley receives another visitor
6/17/20 May 7 Afternoon and Evening: Philbey confesses; Metcalfe runs off
6/18/20 May 8 Morning and Afternoon: Boris and a book; an organist turns up
6/21/20 May 8 Evening: Bishop to Professor; the scene at Salem; Elsie predicts
6/28/20 May 9 Morning: Some conclusions reached
7/2/20 May 9 Rest of the Day: Aftershocks
7/13/20 May 10 Evening: ‘Looking back, I could have played it differently’
7/16/20 May 11: Saturday outings
8/2/20 May 12: Sunday musings
8/8/20 May 13: Re-writing the past and anticipating the future
8/16/20 May 14: Tensions rise all round
8/18/20 May 15 Morning: Watery goings-on
8/25/20 May 15 Afternoon and Evening: Appearances can be deceptive
8/28/20 May 16: Connections – or the lack of them
9/8/20 May 17: Two men fall asleep, at least one of them for good
9/15/20 May 18: A new Detective Constable ponders the case
10/3/20 May 19 Morning: Rise and Shine
10/11/20 May 19 Afternoon: Four Conversations
10/17/20 May 19 Evening and Night: An Adventure goes horribly wrong
10/25/20 May 20 Morning: An inspired DCI; a bemused widow
11/7/20 May 20 Afternoon: Letters from the past; a book reappears
11/15/20 May 20 Evening: Freddie makes a breakthrough; Ellis has an adventure
11/27/20 May 21 Morning: Nothing is as it seems
12/6/20 May 21 Afternoon: pieces of the jigsaw begin to fit, but where’s George?
12/10/20 May 21 Evening: A Handkerchief and a Chart
12/27/20 May 22 Morning: Another death; more revelations
1/1/21 May 22 Afternoon: People and Deductions
1/12/21 May 22 Evening: Hardly a Whitewash
1/28/21 May 23 Morning: Minds are made up
2/6/21 May 23 Afternoon: Wright makes a clean breast of it
2/13/21 May 23 Evening: May and Trubshaw take tea; Linda reveals a secret
2/23/21 May 24 Morning: Ellis relents and vows revenge
3/15/21 May 24 Afternoon: Truth will out; final plans are agreed
3/19/21 May 24 Evening: Commander and Inspector
3/20/21 May 25 Morning: Breakfast musings
3/21/21 May 25 Afternoon: Philbey’s greatest shock – to date
3/22/21 May 25 Evening: A final message?
3/24/21 May 26 morning: A mistaken identity and an examined letter
4/1/21 May 26 afternoon: Welch reflects; Philbey is interviewed.
4/3/21 May 26 evening: Conclusions begin to be reached
4/4/21 May 27 morning: Research turns risky
4/5/21 May 27 afternoon: Demands for Justice begin to mount
4/5/21 May 27 evening: Ellis is back in control, or so she thinks
4/11/21 May 28 morning: A code deciphered
4/15/21 May 28 afternoon: Preparations continue
4/17/21 May 28 evening: An exchange takes place
4/18/21 May 29 morning: After the night before
4/25/21 May 29 afternoon: Deception all around
4/27/21 May 29 Early Evening: Enquiries and solutions
4/29/21 May 29 Mid Evening: Wilberforce’s killer may be revealed; May and Ellis meet their fate  
5/2/21 May 29 Late Evening: First Revelations and Last Wishes
5/6/21 May 30 Early Morning: Awakening Truths
5/8/21 May 30 Dawn: In Tandem if not in Chorus
5/13/21 May 30 Breakfast Time: Two Police Officers Prepare for their Fate
5/15/21 May 30 Travel to Work Time: Some will never arrive
5/15/21 May 30 Lunchtime, Afternoon, Evening: Brief Encounters
5/15/21   May 31: A High-Ranking Officer visits Hartley CID