CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Liz Green and Llewellyn had still not returned by the time Rafferty and Mary Carmody got back to the station. After a quick refreshments break in the canteen, Sergeant Carmody set off for Jaywick to check out what Alice Massey had told them.
Rafferty, left alone with his troubling thoughts, tried to keep busy. He got on the phone to Great Mannleigh station to corroborate Frank Massey's statement but the two officers who had picked him up were off duty and the Custody Sergeant to whom he was put through was interrupted by wild, drunken shouting before he could check his records. Yelling down the line, 'I'll get back to you,' the officer put the phone down.
Rafferty sighed and glanced at the clock. He'd chosen a bad time to call. Christmas drinking started early and like
