Chapter 36Arrest
As the handcuffs snapped shut on the wrists of John Selden, a few short miles away Tony Curtis and Derek McLennan strode into the office of Vera Manvers at Speke Hill. Both officers did a quick double-take as they tried to reconcile the dowdy, matron-like woman who sat behind the secretary's desk with the vampish and sexually attractive woman they'd spoken to in her home the previous day. This Vera Manvers, with her hair scraped back, wearing a high-neck yellow sweater and long brown skirt and with nothing but a little eye shadow in terms of make-up, and reading glasses hanging from a chain round her neck could have passed as a totally different woman. The two men looked at one another before Vera herself broke the deadlock of silence.
“Good morning, detectives. You look
