ADRIAN STONER, FORBES’S accountant, was a slim, sharp-eyed man in his early thirties. At first, he was brusque and unhelpful. He insisted on checking with Forbes before he handed over Jaws Harrison’s payments records, but once Forbes had given his OK, he made no further demur.
A quick glance at the payments records told them that the only debtors who hadn’t lied to them about not seeing Harrison on the afternoon of his murder was Emily Parker and Les Sterling. A check through the previous pages showed them that Jaws had visited neither as a non-p*****t was entered as such in his records. There was no such entry against either name.
It made sense. Jaws Harrison had got as far as Emily Parker’s back gate before he was attacked.
Having got the accountant to photocopy the relevant records p
