It took Ray over two hours to reach his destination, and it was with a sense of relief that he parked the Volvo in the cathedral precinct. He flashed his police ID at an approaching church official, then made his way to the nearby stonemasons" yard, where he asked to speak to the head stonemason.
While he’d been busy in his workshop one evening the previous week, he’d heard the man speak on the radio. If he was planning the design for an item of furniture, or about some other quiet task, he usually put the radio on to catch up with the news. On this occasion he’d found himself listening to a talk on the restoration of church architecture and whether the expense was justified as congregations declined. One of the contributors was a Frenchman from Marseilles named Jacques Cadenet, who was a
