MOST OF THE BASIC PAPERWORK was contained in foolscap, lever arch files on shelves to the left of the small desk. Each was marked up with its contents: car insurance, house insurance and so on.
Rafferty checked the stocks and shares file, while Llewellyn concentrated on the one marked up as containing life insurance and while Rafferty found that all the stocks had been cashed in during the last six months, the life insurance was still extant. It was a term insurance which would have come to a natural end when Keith Sutherland reached the age of seventy. He had died two years shy of that age, so the policy was still in force. It would pay out to his estate the not unwelcome sum of two hundred thousand pounds on Sutherland's death.
'We need to find his will. See exactly who inherits what,'
