“Opium cakes,” Roarke confirmed. “I’ve seen these. And no,” he said at the unspoken question. “Absolutely never.” “I read up more on it,” Peabody said. “You make the morphine from the cakes, boil them with lime, and you get the morphine on the surface, then you heat it up again—I think with ammonia, and he’s got that right under the counter. And the molds. See the molds? That brown pasty stuff in them’s morphine, and you make heroin from that.”
