Bailey's books are scrupulous and compassionate, written with enough panache to fortify readers as they power through these cheerless denouements.
The closer to death the closer they come, waiting on wings with keen impatient perseverance, dark blades lying in wake until age or wound has turned canter into carcass or near enough for them to swoop scrupulous in benediction, land hissing, hopping, tearing, gorging.
It is enough that they be observant and scrupulous when a pattern of bigotry appears.
As a UN report showed in March, if scrupulous buyers shun such diamonds, plenty of less scrupulous ones will snap them up at a discount.
As it happens, there just aren't enough well-proportioned, innately elegant men with scrupulous line and demeanor to go around.
(Mr Desmond says his own politics are "a bit left"; the Cameron government "isn't strong enough").Giving the punters what they wantBut even the scrupulous ought to note Mr Desmond's prosperity, in volatile times and achieved against bigger rivals.
He also had no idea, he insisted, that phone hacking was "a volcano that was about to erupt", yet if he had read the 2010 report on hacking by his parliamentary colleagues on the Commons media select committee he would have found more than enough evidence of a corporate cover-up to worry a scrupulous minister.
In a scrupulous survey of all the research, Quality Costs shows how and why early-years help is not nearly good enough.
To fill that market, Manutius projected a series of books compact enough to be carried easily, set in type that was both economical and highly readable, edited with scrupulous accuracy, and sold as inexpensively as possible.
