THE POST MORTEM WAS scheduled for after lunch, so Rafferty and Llewellyn drove over to Elmhurst General Hospital where the mortuary was situated. They were the last to arrive. They joined the Coroner’s Officer, the Scene-of-Crime officer and the photographer and video operator round the steel table.
Dr Sam Dally greeted them and asked acerbically, ‘So, it’s all right if I make a start now, is it Inspector Rafferty?’
‘No need to be sarcastic, Sam. We’re not late, or not much. We’re ready when you are.’
‘Right.’ Sam turned to the microphone suspended over the table and gave the cadaver’s details: name, age and special characteristics. He described the body, commenting on any abnormality. His assistant took Adrienne Staveley’s fingerprints after taking scrapings from under her nails in cas
