IF DEREK FOWLER, KEITH Sutherland's business partner, had left his Cambridge hotel in order to commit murder, they had been able to find no evidence of it. Neither had they found anyone who was prepared, on being shown the long lens shot Rafferty had got Lance Edwards to obtain, to identify Fowler as an associate of the Perkins brothers.
So it looked, assuming Rafferty's suspicions were correct, that Sutherland had been investigating the possibility of organising a little insurance scam with the assistance of the Perkins frères, on his own.
Whether Sutherland had come to a sticky end because of some sort of thieves' falling out, was debatable. And probably unprovable seeing as the Perkins trio conveniently alibied one another.
But if they had killed Sutherland where did the murder of Ca
