RAFFERTY’S CONVICTION of Ian Sutherland’s guilt – never strong to begin with – had diminished with each hour that passed. Why had he been in such a tearing hurry to charge him? His reasons for this act seemed insufficiently substantial to him now. Not so to Superintendent Bradley, though. Bradley had seized on the arrest like a drowning man grasps and drowns a fellow swimmer. Nothing but clear-cut and indisputable evidence against another suspect would encourage him to leave go of this one.
Rafferty sighed. But who? How? Who else but Ian Sutherland had so many pointers to guilt? Of their other main suspects, Derek Fowler seemed a good choice. Due, on Keith Sutherland’s death, to come into the ownership of the entirety of SuperElect, he had a major motive for offing his partner.
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