SAM DALLY WAS WAITING for them, freshly scrubbed and gowned and wearing a cherubic smile.
'Lunched well, I trust?' he asked Rafferty. 'Don't want you fainting away from hunger, do we?'
'Get on with it you old sadist,' Rafferty muttered.
After another even more cherubic smile, Sam did so. He confirmed that Smith had been strung-up after death. He also confirmed that the cause of death was the stab wound to the heart and that he had, in all likelihood, died immediately, thus confirming Rafferty's suspicions that he had not only died in his own flat, but in his own armchair.
Although Smith's armchair had fresh stains, they had been few enough. Sam explained why. 'Unlike incised knife wounds where the edge of the blade makes cutting gashes, stab wounds, where the point of the knife enters
