MRS SINGLETON LIVED in a pretty pastel house in the expensive Dutch Quarter of the town with a view over the River Tiffey. It looked like there was no shortage of money here. Had that been part of the attraction for the cash-strapped Harry Jones? Madeleine Singleton was tall and slim like Margaret Jones and around the same age, but any similarity ended there. She was vivacious and quick in her movements unlike the lethargic Mrs Jones and kept her attractive house looking spruce.
The Jones’s house, although clean, had shown a distinct lack of homemaking skills, but here, every wall was adorned with paintings, the shelves held books on a variety of subjects and when they called, Mrs Singleton was industriously making a set of blinds on an electric sewing machine. She seemed to have as much
