Keeping it up

The coroner’s work assessing the cause of Marcus’s death had been on one level very easy. He knew what had happened, but not how.

He was quite happy that The Goss wished to delay any funeral until relatives had been found. So grisly was Marcus’s death that he wanted to keep the option to re-examine the body later to reconsider his verdict.

Marcus was kept exactly as he was, erection included, until such time as his relatives and heirs were found. It wasn’t difficult to find people claiming to be Marcus’s heir, The Goss was inundated with bogus claimants.