Chapter Ten
TO COMPLETE THE CIRCLE of suspects, the next morning the mystery, third man in Adrienne Staveley’s life turned up at the station. Rafferty was surprised when Bill Beard on reception rang through to tell him of Richard Simpson’s arrival. Simpson had certainly taken his time in coming forward. He wondered what had prompted him to do so now.
Simpson was in his early thirties, and when Rafferty collected him from reception and brought him back to his office, he categorically denied that he had been Adrienne’s lover.
‘We were just friends’ he insisted. ‘I only met her a few weeks ago. There wasn’t time for the relationship to develop beyond friendship.’
Time enough for most people, Rafferty thought, in this modern age. And given that Adrienne had bedded Michael Peacock on the da
