The suicide of French V-V was a shock.

But not shocking.

There was no rush and no fuss, just sadness. Felicity would state, I made a cup of tea

and took it to the bedroom. The door was half open. I saw Madame on her back with with her feet on the floor, and with one shoe and stocking off.

I said, Madam, here's your tea.

I touched her hand.

She was dead and cold.

Okay. She was dead and cold. Descending to the Globe Club on the first floor.

In broken English, Felicity's damaged, Madame Dead.

As hysterical, as anyone who had found their friend of 15 years, deceased.

Seeing her distress, Charles Bull, the manager, Joseph Phillips the doorkeeper, and Lance George

and actor, enter the bedroom, a flat one on the third floor of three to four Archer Street,

and saw a body, at peace, on the bed.

With Soho being a place, synonymous with sex, the suicide of a prostitute was not an uncommon sight, given the stresses of their lives.

Charles Bull alerted a constable.

P.C. Hill secured the scene and summoned a doctor. Dr. Ria Frith Street pronounced life as extinct,

and as her cause of death had to be determined.

A suicide was still a criminal offence.

The CID of Vine Street were called in.

With the investigation headed up by divisional detective inspector John Edwards and Chief Superintendent Walter Hambrook,

the crime scene was assessed methodically.

The daughter of Flat One was examined by a locksmith who determined there was no tampering, no damage and no signs of a break-in.

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