A running patterer jogged towards Ship Street corner, turned and disappeared.

The patterer was certain of it.

"I saw 'im under the lights," the patterer responded.

Evan remembered what Shotts had said about the patterer telling him of Monk's case.

The patterer gave a sharp, derisive laugh.

At first she stood well back as Monk spoke to peddlers, a running patterer and a rag-and-bone man, and learned nothing of use.

The patterer's face wrinkled in disgust.

About Seven Dials and the running patterer, and hearing from him the case Monk was on."

'Railway to Heaven,' ladies and gents," the ballad-seller chanted, a veteran patterer. "

The harp is the travelling patterer for the Universe's Insurance Company, recommending its laws, and our little goodness is all the assessment that we pay.

It was the running patterer, a thin, light-boned man with straggly black hair and wide blue eyes, who gave the answer which most surprised and disturbed Evan.

Mrs. Patterer, 24, was until recently an account executive with the McClure Group, an advertising agency in Valley Forge, Pa.

Indeed, on this night, the lineup was strong, led by the M.C., Cynthia Koury, a pleasant patterer who looks a little like Bridget Fonda.

He took Leighton Duffs picture to Seven Dials and showed it to cabbies, street pedlars, a running patterer, sellers of flowers, bootlaces, matches, glassware, and to a rat catcher and several prostitutes.

Past them and across a main thoroughfare an old woman was selling sandwiches and a running patterer finished up his tale of lust and mayhem and began to jog along the pavement to another, warmer spot to entertain a new crowd with stories, news and general invention.