Vimes mused in his gloomier moments where there weren't wizards (who made locked room mysteries commonplace) or zombies (murder cases were really strange when the victim could be the chief witness) and where dogs could be relied on to do nothing in the night time and not go around chatting to people. Captain Vimes believed in logic in much the same way as a man in a desert believed in ice -- i. e. it was something he really needed but this just wasn't the world for it. Just once he thought it'd be... read more