“Smith! This looks like a squat! Don’t tell me you live here?!”“Don’t judge a book by its cover, Officer. This is the safest place in the neighbourhood - maybe the safest in the whole of the Marshes!”“Are you sure...

The train station was ten minutes from the hotel on foot, but we covered it faster. The first trains left around five. Two were bound for the Marshes, four minutes apart: one with four stops, the other six. We...