The Prostitute with One Leg, Tales of the Device

They met by chance one foggy night in an alley where Connie was investigating a homicide. A woman with one leg beside a dumpster behind a restaurant, sprawled on her back, clothes ripped and covered with blood, found by kitchen staff when taking out garbage. Uniformed cops milled about. Connie was kneeling beside the body, stood, made some notations in a notebook.