Mr Spenny, the accountant who dealt with the partnership books, was a thin, stooped man with a ruff of white hair, but his eyes were as sharp as those of any of Zurich's gnomes. He seemed to take as a personal slur on his professional abilities the suggestion that there might be something untoward in the accounts. He had already explained at length in his slow, rather prissy voice, that he had gone through the appointments book that Rafferty had dropped in for him, matching the appointments up with the invoices. Now, he proceeded to go through it all a second time, just in case Rafferty should have any doubts, explaining that the invoices all tallied with the appointments and the payments into the bank account tallied with the invoices. Ginnie Campbell was responsible for opening the post
