title: The Dark Side of River Heights: Observations of the Untold and the Unflattering
author: Renee Walker
description: The Dark Side of River Heights: Observations of the Untold and the Unflattering has not been prepared, approved, or licensed by any person or entity that created, published, or produced the Nancy Drew books or related properties.
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  **A Very Big Bang**
  
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  **Philip McCutchan**
  
    
  
  © Philip McCutchan, 1975
  
  Philip McCutchan has asserted his rights under the Copyright, Design and
  Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work.
  
  First published in 1975 by Hodder and Stoughton.
  
  This edition published in 2018 by Endeavour Media Ltd.
  
    
  
  **Table of Contents**
  
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  _One_
  
  _Two_
  
  _Three_
  
  _Four_
  
  _Five_
  
  _Six_
  
  _Seven_
  
  _Eight_
  
  _Nine_
  
  _Ten_
  
  _Eleven_
  
  _Twelve_
  
  _Thirteen_
  
  _Fourteen_
  
  _Fifteen_
  
  _Sixteen_
  
  _Seventeen_
  
  _Eighteen_
  
  _Nineteen_
  
  _Twenty_
  
    
  
  **One**
  
  The curiously shaped bundle, as dawn began to lighten the water between
  Westminster and Waterloo bridges, sogged just below the scummy surface of the
  river, sometimes up a little, and visible, as it twisted in the current;
  sometimes down, and visible only from directly above by the sharp-eyed gulls
  that wheeled in search of garbage. From time to time there was a thin trail of
  blood to be seen, had anyone been looking, blood