Unaware of the compliments being paid to him, Robert’s mind was still full of conflicting arguments when he woke up. Although he was forced to accept the implications of Daphne’s statement, he couldn’t see Brenda going to such extreme lengths to get her own way. The more he thought about it, the more he was convinced that the case had the hallmarks of a man written all over it.
For a start, Brenda must have known Tom was left-handed. After all, they grew up together, and he couldn’t imagine that she would have had the gumption to wipe her fingerprints off the gun afterwards. It doesn’t make sense, he repeated to himself in exasperation. It had to be someone else, but who? What he needed right now was a shower to freshen himself up and to help him think straight, and a bite to eat before h
