“You said over the phone you thought it could be suicide. Do you still think so? The papers said—”
“The papers said it was an accident,” Liddell conceded. “I don’t believe it.”
“Suicide?”
“Why should Reeves commit suicide?”
Marta shrugged. “You said yourself Debbie was expecting to get her hands on a lot of money. Maybe she was shaking him too hard and he had to get her off his back.”
“Then why hire me?”
The blonde considered. “What better way to keep tabs on what progress you were making? Maybe you inadvertently dropped something when you were talking to him that convinced him you were onto him.” She looked up into Liddell’s face. “You said his accountants were going to go over his books.”
Liddell nodded his head glumly. “They did. A couple of weeks ago, he made a large withdrawal
