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Gary (Ginger) Devenish had been handed the task of looking into the background of the murdered gardener, Daniel Parker. He stood outside the front door to the house Parker rented in Walton. The Prior had informed Devenish that, as far as he knew, Parker was divorced and lived in a house he shared with a friend. Although the Prior didn"t have an address, which Devenish thought incredibly lax of him, he"d traced Parker"s home with the help of DS Ferris, who"d located it through the man"s driving licence.
He knocked loudly and was just about to repeat the procedure, his hand poised to knock, when the door opened. Devenish found himself face-to-face not with a man, as he expected, but a good-looking woman of about fortyish. She wore a white blouse with a pale blue silk scarf and a dark
