“Examine the edges of the wound, and you’ll see they’re quite bloodless,” Gray says, still working on the abdomen. “My preliminary assessment would be that she was killed elsewhere, by strangulation, and then brought here, where the knife work was done. The blood, as you noted correctly, would have settled by that time, causing a lack of it here at the scene. Hugh? Can you show Catriona how to check for that?” McCreadie pulls down the shoulder of the victim’s dress, as circumspectly as possible, and points out the lividity, indicating the blood has settled.
