IT WAS FORTUNATE FROM a time point of view that, even if the three members of Seward’s staff who had attended the reception had now returned to their late employer’s estate north of Norwich, most of the remaining suspects lived in Elmhurst itself or very close by.
Samantha Harman the party waitress, and Randy Rawlins, the cocktail waiter and barman, both lived in staff accommodation at the Elmhurst Hotel, so it seemed logical to Rafferty, as he pulled into the station yard and parked up, that they begin the next round of questioning with them.
And even if neither of them had had anything to do with Seward’s murder, it was possible they had noticed things the significance of which they had perhaps not realised at the time. Hotel staff were trained to keep their eyes open and their wits ab
