Brighton Rock (novel) Brighton Rock (novel) Charles "Fred" Hale comes to Brighton on assignment to distribute cards anonymously for a newspaper competition (a variant of "Lobby Lud"; in this case, the name of the person to be spotted is "Kolley Kibber"). The antihero of the novel, Pinkie Brown, is a teenage sociopath and up-and-coming gangster. Hale had betrayed the former leader of the gang Pinkie now controls, by writing an article in the "Daily Messenger" about a slot machine racket for which the gang was responsible. Ida Arnold, a plump, kind-hearted and decent woman, is drawn into the action by a chance meeting
The Words That Maketh Murder version of the video was released on 15 March 2011. Although Harvey had previously performed a number of songs from the album in 2009, "The Words That Maketh Murder" was debuted live at La Maroquinerie in Paris, France on 14 February 2011, her first live performance to promote "Let England Shake". This performance was also broadcast live as a webcast through a number of online sites, including the concert's promoter Dezzer Offline. The performance was shortly followed by an in-studio radio session for "Geoff Lloyd's Hometime Show" on Absolute Radio on 17 February, and later for a BBC Radio 1