Constable Arthur Pike

Porthgrey’s constable in 1953, and the man who took every statement that night. His notebook is the reason Edmund Hale has anything to work with at all. Pike wrote down what people said, not what he thought of it, which Hale considers the rarest of police virtues.

Every witness had a life beyond that night. Some of those lives are in the sealed file, which opens once you have solved the case.