Editing Clues and Conclusions (Bran and Crowe Secondhand Books) (section)

== Report of PC Warmuth ==

"Last Monday, the twelfth of March, I was proceeding up Buckingham Street towards John Adam Street. I greeted Mr Bran as he passed me on his way to Charing Cross tube station. Shortly after I heard him cry out. I ran back and found him coughing violently on his hands and knees in York Terrace. Once the coughing had ceased Mr Bran requested that I assist him to the station, which I did. When I parted with Mr Bran I went back and examined the area where I believe the attack took place by torchlight. I could find no sign of another person there."

(Crowe asks "You believe Bran was attacked? But, was he robbed? Did he say anything to you?")

"I believe Mr Bran was attacked, Mr Crowe, but Mr Bran did not make a statement to that effect. After I helped him to the Underground station, I could see no marks of violence on him, just the wet marks on his clothing where he'd been kneeling in the rain. He still had all his possessions on him, I saw him checking his pockets. After that he just thanked me by name and passed through the ticket barrier. I reported the incident when I returned to the station house."

"Mr Crowe, the police are satisfied that Mr Bran died of pneumonia, because that's what the doctors agree on, and it's likely the Walthamstow coroner's court will agree too. Officially, Mr Bran had a coughing fit. It sounded like he was being strangled to me. When I ran up and shone my electric torch on him, it changed into a coughing fit."

(Collins asks "How much time was there between your hearing Bran and laying your eyes on him? Could someone have had time to run away? Or hide somewhere in the area? He surely couldn't have been attacked by some unseen assailant?")

"Well, Mr Collins, I wasn't far up Buckingham Street, maybe 30 yards or so. I didn't hear any fleeing footsteps on York Terrace, or in Victoria Embankment Gardens, but it was raining and the ground would have been soft. I didn't see any footprints there afterward."

; Assess Honesty
: PC Warmuth has been truthful the whole time.
; Occult
: Frances constructs a mental list of grimoires that confer invisibility.
# The Book Of Abramelin
# The Grand Grimoire
# The Key Of Solomon (Clavicula Salomonis)
# The Lesser Key Of Solomon (The Goetia)
# The True Grimoire (Grimoirium Verum)