CHAPTER SIX
It was already getting dark by the time they came out of the mortuary. Rafferty turned the car round and drove towards Habberstone, the busy market town about four miles west of Elmhurst, where ex-Inspector Stubbs had settled on retirement.
Before he did anything else, like interviewing Smith's victims, their families, and Mrs Nye of the Rape Support Group, Rafferty wanted to speak to the inspector who had been in charge of the Smith case. He wanted his opinion of Smith's victims' families, to gain his impression of them as people—and as possible would-be murderers.
His flimsy recollection of the case had been well-bolstered by Smith's newspaper collection. One man interested him greatly—Frank Massey, the father of one of Smith's victims, who had beaten Smith up and served a
