A contract killer, Mort, wanders through the fairground in search of his victim, one of the minor attractions.

He arrives at the table of Gypsy Rose Lee who invites him to have a reading or some healing - she is a psychic healer after all.

He reluctantly agrees.

Read by Steven McNicoll.

From a collection of short stories by crime writer Ian Rankin.

Abridged and produced by David Jackson Young

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2002. Show less