Chapter Five
Rafferty was relieved to find that Jonas Singleton was a relatively young man. The firm of Wilkinson, Warburton, Walker & Blenkinsopp was old-established and, certainly on the surface, old-fashioned in its ways. An older member of the firm — given Raymond Raine's sudden and violent death — might be more likely to shilly-shally when it came to telling them what he knew of the dead man and his affairs, particularly if it pointed the finger at another member of the family.
But as Mr Singleton readily explained to them when Rafferty asked him about it, he intended to co-operate. He wasn't the old-style family solicitor, he was quick to assure them. The power of old money was being increasingly supplanted by new money as the ambitious younger generation, male and female, with the
