Chapter Eight
BACK AT THE STATION, Rafferty quickly dismissed Smales. Anxious to avoid Llewellyn and receive another third-degree about Nigel’s alibis, he broke all records in typing up the notes of the York interview that concealed as much as they revealed, and was about to head back out when he saw Llewellyn’s message.
The first item on this lengthy epistle told him another thing he’d rather no one knew he knew; namely, that Isobel Goddard had returned from her parents’ home and could be interviewed without Rafferty having to drive to Suffolk.
Why was it, Rafferty wondered, that whenever Llewellyn tried to be helpful, he invariably upset his own cunningly laid plans? Clearly, Llewellyn expected him to turn up at the dating agency offices. As this didn’t suit Rafferty at all, he scribb
