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Going to visit Gary McCann was always an odd pleasure for Jack Culverhouse. McCann was known in the town as a prominent businessman, and to the police as a prolific white-collar criminal who had slipped through their hands like slime for almost four decades.
He’d started life as a petty criminal, burgling little old ladies and getting away with it, until he’d progressed on to bigger things. He had a penchant for investing in local businesses, although his method of investment usually involved buying a controlling share in a struggling local business and putting in just enough money to keep it afloat, meanwhile using it to launder his illegally-acquired funds before pulling the plug and leaving everyone high and dry.
There had been whispers of far bigger crimes, too. His first wife ha
