The Blood: What secrets lie aboard? (Jem Flockhart) - Signed, Lined and Dated Alys Clare is an elderly writer with

is an elderly writer with a 'block'

a black-ops British government outfit

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The Blood: What secrets lie aboard? (Jem Flockhart) - Signed, Lined and Dated Alys Clare is an elderly writer withI knew the smell of death well enough. But here the sweetness of decay was tainted with something else, something new and different. It was a curious, moist smell; a smell that spoke of the ooze and slap of water, of gurgling wet spaces and the sticky, yielding mud of low tide Summoned to the riverside by the desperate, scribbled note of an old friend, Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain find themselves on board the seamen's floating hospital, an old