THIRTY-SIX
Things in the construction and energy section at Christopher Clark & Oliver had changed drastically since the arrest of Frank Oliver. The management committee, and Tad Culpepper in particular, had encouraged Frank to take a leave of absence until the air was cleared on Ken Hargrove’s murder. Oliver resisted vigorously – he said that made him look guilty and he wasn’t going to, by God, let Hargrove posthumously run him out.
He did concede, though, that there might be some crisis of confidence in his ability to function as a lawyer. He’d been in a particularly foul mood and spent most of his days brooding in his office, much as he spent his time at home. At home, he at least had the television and his liquor cabinet to keep him company. Tad suspected that the locked bottom drawe
