CHAPTER 16Barry O’Donnell’s main objective now was to lose the police tail Simmons had obviously put on him, whilst doing a bit of detective work of his own. So far he had turned up nothing in spite of showing the rough sketch he had drawn up from Christy’s description to various publicans in the more select areas of London, places like Chelsea, Bayswater, Belgravia, even in Westminster and Sloane Square. No one, it appeared, either knew of the de Chesney woman or recollected seeing her.
Losing Mathers and Roth in the bustling lunchtime crowds was not overly difficult. Raised as a kid in the East End, although Barry’s learning had not included thieving, however petty, he had learned from his kid brother Steve how to backtrack and dodge people he did not wish to meet. That same teaching se
