Beginning to get quite used to the idea of facing up to the penetrating gaze of the coroner, namely Alastair Bunning, the local magistrate, Robert was quite miffed to discover that the inspector was prepared to take full credit for discovering how Brenda met her death by setting off a tripwire, instead of committing suicide as he had originally claimed. But after keen questioning by the magistrate, the inspector was forced to admit the true facts and Robert once more found himself in the witness box.
‘Now, Mr Bruce, I understand from the inspector that you were the first to discover the true nature of the death of the deceased?’
‘Yes, I believe that is true,’ he replied, carefully ignoring the look of baffled fury on the inspector’s face as he sat in the audience, despite his studied air
