After speaking to Michael and Cynthia White, Pat and Lina drove across country to Clare in order to interview Ross Sloane, the retired sergeant who’d led the initial investigation when Andrew and Jane had been reported missing.
It was late afternoon when they arrived at the address Bob Davenport had given them, a cottage with a large garden in Opie Street. Ross opened the front door as they stepped onto the veranda. He didn’t look like a man of seventy five years, apart from the white hair.
‘Good of you to make time for us, Ross,’ said Pat.
‘Come through to the back,’ said Ross. ‘Mary’s made some afternoon tea for us.’
He led them through to a shaded pergola at the rear of the house, where Mary was placing a tray of small cakes and a teapot next to four fine china tea cups perched in t
