One of the twins, Rafferty wasn’t certain whether it was Keith or Roy, opened the door to Llewellyn’s knock. Whichever twin he was, he looked even less pleased to see the two policemen again than had Marcus Canthorpe.
The identical twins whose school days had been devoted to snitching to teacher and weaselling confidences from their school mates, hadn’t improved with maturity. Rafferty had ample opportunity to discover this when he had first re-made their acquaintance on questioning them immediately after Seward’s murder.
They had both always been very thin, but, as he and Llewellyn followed whichever twin it was through to the living room, where they found the second sibling, Rafferty noticed that now, both had a brittleness about them that hadn’t been evident in their youth. The reason
