Chapter Nineteen
BUT RAFFERTY WAS WRONG about Nigel’s intentions, as, much to his surprise, he discovered shortly afterwards. Because Nigel had another agenda entirely, as he was quick to reveal.
Nigel, it seemed, was keen to use his knowledge of Mickey’s whereabouts and Rafferty’s complicity in his disappearance to do a deal. He would, he told them, trade discretion on his part for a similar favour from his Auntie Kitty. Ma’s knowledge of Nigel’s more underhand doings had got Rafferty out of another problem earlier in the year, when she had been able to threaten Nigel should he fail to keep his mouth shut about Rafferty’s invidious position as chief suspect during the Made in Heaven murder investigation.
Rafferty knew he should be thankful that his cousin was only too ready to keep his
