The Fourth Page
A cold case, triggered by the digitisation of old paper files: a missing page no one noticed for thirty years. The opening of The Wendfeld Files, the crime series around Detective Chief Inspector Ruth Salzmann.
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- The Wendfeld Files · Volume 1 (of 5 planned)
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REPORT 6,114
Records Office Information System REGIS · Hall 2 · 03.03.2026, 04:17
Case 1998/K/4471, volume II. Folio numbering not consecutive.
Captured: folios 213, 214, 216, 217.
Folio 215 not captured. No carrier sheet, no adhesive fold, no duplicate capture.
Within folio 214: record of interview form, page numbering 1, 2, 3, 5.
Priority: low.
I report.
Room U 14 had two windows, and both of them began at pavement level. When somebody walked past outside, Ruth Salzmann saw the shoes first, and then, if she leaned back, as far up as the hip. In seven years she had learnt to recognise people by their shoes, and she had learnt that this was a completely useless skill.
It was the ninth of March, a Monday, and the list was lying on her desk.
The list was the unit. Two hundred and fourteen cases, homicides, unsolved or disputed, oldest entry 1971, most recent 2014. Each with a file reference, a name, a date and a column headed status, which for one hundred and seventy-nine cases contained the word dormant.
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