RAFFERTY’S IDEA WAS vindicated by the early feedback from the team. Because both victims of the knifeman – apart from Tony Edmunds – said the same thing: that the mugger sounded posh but seemed to be trying to disguise it.
Llewellyn, for the moment, had no use for his sceptical expression. But Rafferty sensed it, hovering in the wings, awaiting its own vindication. He was determined that this wouldn’t happen. A man had his pride. It was a carryover from the Babbington case, of course, which was every bit as irritating.
Still, if all else failed, he could always pull rank, though this to him felt like the action of a man who couldn’t come up with anything else. Besides, it reminded him too much for comfort of Bradley, who invariably used this tactic as a first form of defence.
Still, he
