DISGUISE, ADOPTION OF - In conducting an investigation, I'll occasionally resort to disguise. In my experience, a surly teenager reluctant to communicate with Hamilton Coe is invariably less reticent in the company of ‘Tommy the punk'. The efficacy of any disguise depends entirely upon its bearer's ability to immerse himself entirely into his new character. While investigating my brother's liaison with the Patersons, his so-called birth family, I lazily assumed the role of Marius, a trinket-selling gypsy with whom I had zero real affinity. I was following the family on a Sunday stroll when Spencer suddenly stopped, turned and sprinted across the road to attack me, landing several blows before assorted Patersons intervened to drag him away. While Douglas Paterson made light of the incident in his nightclub comedy act, I'm sure the family were all perturbed by this volatile aspect of their new relative. The rift that had always been a distinct possibility now became inevitable. See also MACLACHLAN, KYLE and PEARSON, GUY.

Would the real Hamilton Coe please step forward! Various disguises adopted in the course of investigations.

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