Chapter FourOn arrival back at the police station, Rafferty hurried to his office. He was anxious to read the preliminary reports from the house-to-house teams. But as he discovered, these early reports added up to very little, which wasn’t altogether surprising as Sam Dally had said Clara Mortimer had died around 7.00 a m: a time when most people would either have been still in bed or just getting up and preparing themselves for another day, rather than out on the streets.
Disappointed, he headed back to the scene, hoping Llewellyn’s interviews of the other residents might have unearthed something more interesting.
He found Llewellyn outside the Priory Way apartment block organising yet another team. When he saw Rafferty, he dismissed the officers, made a brief note on the sheaf of pape
