Chapter Eight
DEREK FOWLER HAD APPEARED matter-of-fact about the partnership details and the agreement that now made him sole owner of SuperElect. It had been a matter-of-factness that he had been obliged to adopt given his timely inheritance of Sutherland’s half of the business. But, by his very brief explanation, he seemed, to Rafferty, to have been trying to gloss over the facts, to make them seem unimportant rather than a perfect motive for murder.
Fowler had told them that he didn't know whether Sutherland's widow or his children had been aware of the details of their partnership agreement. But, he had added, on the whole, he thought not, thereby ensuring that Rafferty was aware that he might not be presumed to be the only party to expect to gain by Sutherland's sudden demise.
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