A body is to be buried in the foundations of the i360 – in the next Roy Grace book by Brighton crime writer Peter James.
Mr James went on a tour of the seafront construction site today (Wednesday 17 June) to try to work out where a body could be put.
He was shown around by project manager Neal Mardon, from the Dutch steel company Hollandia, which made the “cans” for the i360 shaft. The shaft for the observation tower is currently being assembled.
At the weekend Mr James handed over a cheque for more than £1,500 to the Old Police Cells Museum at Brighton Town Hall.
The money was donated by people who went to see the stage play based on Mr James’s novel Dead Simple.
Off for a tour of the Brighton i 360 construction site – looking for a suitable place in the foundations to put a body in my next book!
— Peter James (@peterjamesuk) June 17, 2015
Thank you so much @peterjamesuk and audiences at @DeadSimplePlay for this wonderful contribution to @PoliceCellsBri pic.twitter.com/pGymC6BmmI
— Graham Bartlett (@GrahamBSDLM) June 13, 2015
I remarked at an early meeting about this tower that it could make a setting for a scene in a movie. Vertigo Revisited. Or The Third Man.