Chapter Fifteen
BETWEEN ONE THING AND another, Rafferty realised he had forgotten to look at the security tapes from Seward’s Norfolk home. There had been so many people to check out and question – those who had attended the party, all the acquaintances in the contacts book and Seward’s diary – that it was several days before he even remembered their existence.
Normally, he would have delegated such a task to a junior member of the team. But as this was a case in which he already had plenty to conceal, he thought it prudent to do the job himself.
And when he did, it was to make the discovery that ‘dear’ Nigel had been amongst those who had visited Rufus Seward at his Norfolk estate in the days prior to Seward’s death. He had, therefore, had the opportunity to help himself to one of the
