IT WAS LATER THE NEXT day when Llewellyn finally managed to get to speak to the Imam at the local mosque.
He was thoughtful when he returned.
'I've just found one more of Mrs Ogilvie's brood out in a lie,' he said to Rafferty. 'Remember that Hakim told us he was studying at the local mosque at the time of his grandmother’s murder?'
Rafferty gave the required nod to this rhetorical question and waited to see what Llewellyn’s discreet enquiries had turned up.
'According to the Imam, Hakim wasn't at the mosque that morning. He should have been as he had instruction regularly every week, but the Imam said Hakim's interest in religion has taken a downward turn lately and he's missed a few of these instruction periods. The Imam, who seemed a kindly man, was of the opinion that young Hakim ha
