CHAPTER FIVERafferty was in his office early on Thursday, He had asked Hal Gallagher for the personnel files and he wanted to go through them, learn something of the staff before he spoke to them later in the morning.
Apart from the files of the firm’s current staff, he had also obtained those of the staff who had left between the death of Robert Aimhurst and the murder of Clive Barstaple. He was thankful there had been no more than three such departures, thankful, too, that, having reached the superstitiously significant figure of three deaths they must now have reached the week’s total cadaver tally. It was a comforting thought and one he confided to Llewellyn as he arrived with the canteen tea. ‘I know that with its two corpses, yesterday was decidedly gutty, but let’s look on the brig
