RAFFERTY, THE SHOPPING successfully and speedily accomplished in the nearest department store which offered beautiful gift-wrapping, sat back smugly, and told Llewellyn on the drive back to Elmhurst that Marcus Canthorpe had become every bit as callous and ruthless as his boss. ‘I suppose he’d spent the last five years watching and studying, in Rufus Seward, a ruthless professional at work. Something was bound to rub off.’
‘Rather like your poor spelling has an adverse effect on my own,’ Llewellyn murmured.
Rafferty chose not to hear this. ‘Even so, imagine deliberately setting up an entirely innocent man, a complete stranger, to take the rap for murder. I’m still having trouble getting my head around that.’
Llewellyn shrugged, and commented, ‘As you said, he didn’t lack an excellent tu
