Chapter 21R.I.P Joey
The funeral of Joey Slimani was indeed a low-key affair. The small chapel at the Landican Cemetery and Crematorium in Birkenhead wasn't even half-full as his wife, Trixie and two ex-wives led the small group of mourners, the three women sitting together at the front of the room, with Mary-Beth and Lana flanking the widow, like a pair of personal bodyguards.
Behind them, dressed in black business suits, sat Heinrich Braun and Stefan Schmidt, the two German p**n producers who'd both had recent business dealings with the dead man, but who both appeared motiveless when it came to the subject of his murder. In the same row sat Michael Powell, the dead man's solicitor, William Jennings, the Slimani's butler/manservant/part-time lover to Trixie and an unknown man who Ross c
