CHAPTER FOURSo far, Rafferty and Llewellyn had only had the opportunity for a cursory inspection of the premises. Now, Rafferty returned downstairs and collected Llewellyn. Before Watts And Cutley’s ‘big cheese’, Alistair Plumley arrived, he wanted them to have the grand tour.
Aimhurst And Son’s offices stood twenty yards or so back from the road, with parking places for ten cars in front. The grounds incorporated a roadway that led right round the premises. Obviously, the building had originally been a quite substantial residence. Victorian in its heavy use of the ornate, it must have been gutted and turned into offices before the protecting hand of the architectural environmentalists held sway. Rafferty thought it a pity; he loved the gloriously robust individuality of such buildings, c
