Crime

• 'Hale knew before he had been in brighton 3 hours that they had meant to murder him'pg 3


  begins in media res

  sets up crime genre
• 'colleonis mob had killed kite'


  organised gang crime

  murder
• 'slashed his razored nail at brewers cheek'pg 59


  gang crime

  assult
• 'razor blade'


  carrying a weapon
• 'the boy looked down at the body' pg 132


  murder of spicer
• placing hales 'cards'


  tampering with evidence
• 'I don't mind you lot carving each other up in a quiet way' pg 69
• 'Mr prewit knew you were certain of that at the first sight of him' pg 124

  corruption
• 'I killed spicer' pg 142
• 'I'd like a stick of Brighton rock' pg 194


  link to the death of hale

  sinister
• 'His death gave the house aa feeling of importance' pg 208


  about spicers death
• 'I killed spicer. I married a girl. Have I got to have a massacre?' pinkie pg 220
• 'police witnesses the criticisms of magistrates regurgitated from his tormented stomach' pg 229
• 'a suicide pact' pg 235
• 'My god have I got to have a massacre'

  'Gun'

  pinkie pg 264