Chapter Nine
SAMANTHA HARMAN, ALTHOUGH grateful when Rafferty rang her to let her know that Dorothea Bignall’s evidence had exonerated her from the inquiry and any suspicion that she might have killed Seward, was unable to reciprocate this service.
‘I’m a man’s woman,’ Inspector,’ she told him with a flirtatious little giggle. ‘To be honest, if I hadn’t seen her watching me during the evening I’d have barely noticed this Mrs Bignall. She struck me as one of those little mice with nothing to say for themselves who vanish into the wallpaper on social occasions. It’s not even as if she seemed to enjoy herself at all during the few times I noticed her. I didn’t see her mingling with the other guests or anything. Still, thank her for me, won’t you? And tell her I’m sorry I can’t give her an a
