16 THE INVESTIGATIONAs the inspector had pointed out, he had more resources at his disposal than Tony, so his investigation proceeded on several fronts, namely: undisclosed business rivals, the Johnstons, Claude, and Daisy, but not necessarily in that order. Tony wanted to start with the Johnstons. It wasn’t that he was ruling the other options out, but if he discovered that Daisy was involved, the only person he would be able to tell, if anyone at all, was her mother, and she was not up to a shock like that.
He asked Teresa for permission to have his friend, colleague and head gardener, Salvador, drive him around in one of the house vehicles. He would not have taken the Mercedes even it was available, which it wasn’t because the insurance company was still deciding whether it should be r
