AFTER BEING PUT IN the picture, Eric Penn’s mother got the truth from her son with little difficulty. As Llewellyn and Rafferty had guessed, Eric had swapped the containers in Barstaple’s litter bin, first flushing the second container’s contents down the sink. He’d done it because Dot Flowers had always been kind to him and it had made him feel important to be asked.
Rafferty also spoke to Albert Smith and Marian Steadman. He didn’t want Smith to think he’d got away entirely with his wicked behaviour.
He found them both in Marian Steadman’s home. After she had let him in he followed her into the comfortable living room where he’d dropped the twin packets of in flagrante delicto photos of Clive Barstaple on the coffee table, upending first one, then the other.
As the shots of Clive Bars
