Incongruous for his smart suit and expensive shoes, a Cruel-looking, Thin-Lipped Man sits guarding a Briefcase in a Chinese-run Coffee Shop on aTuesday afternoon. The Owner and His Wife serve terrible coffee nervously and across the room a Recently Disgraced Detective watches as a Sharply Dressed Woman saunters in, hat pulled low but not quite concealing an Ugly Blue Bruise on her cheek. But what else is she concealing? And what, if anything, do these things have to do with each other? The Sharply Dressed Woman orders tea, opens her novel and wonders whether Judgment Day could fall on a Tuesday afternoon...
