#PrestonAndChild, #Pendergast book "The Cabinet of Curiosities" page 97.
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He's investigating a 100 year old murder where a young woman knows she'll be killed, cuts a body part with a splinter and writes her name and address on paper in her own blood. You don't write much when you're using your own blood as ink is his point later on in the book.