RAFFERTY INSISTED ON Llewellyn handing the car keys over for the return journey. No way was he going through a repeat performance of the journey here. His blood pressure wouldn’t stand it.
When they got back to Elmhurst, Rafferty drove straight to Emre Balik’s house. He was keen to speak to the over-sized landlord again before he tried Carlton’s bell. As it appeared that there was no love lost between them, he might have been able to persuade the man to tell him anything else he knew about Carlton. But there was no answer from the landlord, no huge, bulky shadow appeared behind the glass.
He rang Carlton’s bell next, but there was no answer there, either. Not that he’d expected a response. It was obvious now he’d done a bunk and had found somewhere to secrete himself.
‘We’ll just have t
