Chapter Two
ON FRIDAY MORNING RAFFERTY and Llewellyn drove to Maurice Smith's flat. He lived in an Edwardian terraced house, a once-family home that had seen better days and had long been converted to separate dwellings. Smith's home was on the first floor, above the landlady, Mrs Penny's, flat. There was an unlocked outside door, and, inside this, the two flats each had their own doors with letterboxes and secondary bells. Rafferty noticed that Smith's door had a spyhole, an amateur effort which he had probably made himself.
After getting no answer from Smith, Rafferty tried the landlady's bell. But there was no answer there either and he suggested they have a look around the back.
A six-foot double wooden gate concealed concrete hard-standing. Rafferty frowned as he saw the lock on th
