CHAPTER SEVENAfter Marian Steadman’s frank revelations, her colleagues, as though anxious to be thought equally as frank, were quick to back up her opinion of Barstaple’s character. Even Amy Glossop, whom Rafferty suspected was the office spy given the speed with which the rest of the staff had isolated her, agreed that Barstaple could be ‘a little difficult’.
Rafferty and Llewellyn made a start on taking the individual statements. It quickly became clear that, apart from Linda Luscombe, the rest of the staff had all had ample opportunity to plan and carry out Clive Barstaple’s murder. Linda Luscombe, having only returned to work on the morning of the murder had had a much more limited opportunity. Even this was reduced to zero when her colleagues backed up her statement that she hadn’t e
