‘Well, while you’re chewing on it, a word of advice.’
‘What’s that?’
‘Don’t eat the yoghurt.’
When Llewellyn returned to the office after getting in touch with Barstaple’s previous firms, Rafferty told him Dally’s post-mortem findings. ‘Sam suggested the killer was probably hoping to confuse the issue by putting the poison in the yoghurt rather than Barstaple’s main lunch dish. What do you think?’
‘It’s something to be considered,’ replied Llewellyn with his usual caution. ‘It’s possible, of course, as Dr Dally inferred, that the person who poisoned him wasn’t in the office yesterday. Equally, it could be that whoever killed him just wanted to spread suspicion by making it look as if the poison could have been introduced to the food on another day. On similar lines, maybe the location
