Unfortunately for Rafferty's theory, no-one who had seen her on the night of the murder, had been able to recall what Mrs Hadleigh had been wearing. It seemed she had an assortment of nondescript dresses which she wore for her work and they all looked much the same; dark, drab and practical. There was no help for them there, Rafferty realised. But, he thought, before he went cap in hand to Bradley to have the tip searched, he wanted another go at getting the truth out of her. As he'd already discovered, telling lies didn't come easily to her. Maybe - if she had killed Moon, the strain of having to tell more would prove her undoing.
But, it was clear when they visited her at her shabby flat, that Ellen Hadleigh wasn't about to confess to murder just to give Rafferty the satisfaction of bei
