Chapter Eleven
BESTED IN HIS HOPE of discretion from Idris Khan about the super’s attendance at the party, later that day, Rafferty decided he ought to make a start on investigating one of the other possibilities in the case.
According to Marcus Canthorpe when Rafferty rang and questioned him on the subject, Seward’s solicitors, McCann, Doolittle and Steel, were near his Norfolk home rather than in London as Rafferty had expected.
Canthorpe had put him straight when he had asked about it. ‘He only used the McCann firm for personal stuff. All the business legal work was done by a City firm, as you’d expect.’
‘I see. So McCann, Doolittle and Steel would have written up Sir Rufus’s will?’
Canthorpe agreed. ‘He dealt with Philip Metcalfe, one of the partners.’
‘If you could let me have t
