EpilogueAs Rafferty read Charles Ogilvie’s confession in all its sad delusion and guilty rhetoric, he remarked to Llewellyn that the killing of Clara Mortimer was a very modern murder. Could such a tragedy really have occurred at any other time in history?
‘Modern times, with their split and broken families give so many people vastly different experiences to those of generations fifty, even thirty years earlier. In many ways, between modern lives and lives in the fifties there exists a gulf as great as that between the fifties and the Middle Ages.’
Llewellyn nodded. ‘The fifties' drugs of choice for the greater number was, I understand, beer and Woodbines, not the skunk, crack cocaine and ecstasy that bring their accompanying loss of self-control, delusion and paranoia.’
Rafferty nodded
