AS SOON AS HARRY JONES was shown into Interview Room One, before he had even taken a seat, Rafferty threw down Jaws Harrison’s notebook, open on the page that referred to Jones’s affair with Mrs Singleton then threw Llewellyn’s decoding of its contents down after it and said, ‘You didn’t mention the dead man was blackmailing you.’
Harry Jones was remarkably calm. But then he’d had time to get used to the idea that they knew of his predicament, as, presumably, Mrs Singleton had told him from where she’d obtained the information. He sat down and looked Rafferty in the eye before he replied. ‘I was being blackmailed, yes. But how was I to know it was Jaws Harrison doing the blackmailing? I didn’t. I never even got to speak to him. He mailed me the evidence he had of dates and times I spent w
