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That local knowledge runs richly through the finished play, with references to Snig Hill police station, the Hathersage countryside, Manor Top snooker hall and Netherthorpe coming thick and fast.

The court was read Holmes’ account to the IPCC, in which he described a meeting with Beal, on the fourth floor of South Yorkshire police’s Snig Hill headquarters, at which he said Beal became “agitated,” “stricter,” and told Holmes he could not understand why he would not do “what was being asked.”

Snigger, snig′ėr, v.i. to laugh in a half-suppressed, broken manner.—n. a half-suppressed laugh.

Sniggle, snig′l, v.i. to fish for eels by thrusting the bait into their hiding-places.—v.t. to catch by this means: to ensnare.—n.

“Good-day, Pig Snig,” said the pancake, and began to roll as fast as ever it could.