Chapter FifteenRafferty and Llewellyn drove to London to speak to Mr Mitchelson, the dead man's landlord. He lived in the same small, private block of flats as his tenant, Peter Bodham, south of the river at Wandsworth.
Now they had a confirmed identity for the dead man, Rafferty was anxious to search Bodham's flat. He was hopeful they might turn up some clues as to what had been going on in his life that might have caused him to wind up dead and buried in Elmhurst's RC convent.
After first paying a courtesy call to the local police station, they drove to the flats and found a visibly upset Mr Mitchelson waiting on his late tenant's doorstep. The landlord, tall, wiry and inclined to pugnacity, launched into a verbal attack the moment he saw them.
'Maybe if you people had listened to me
