CHAPTER 17Carter Bowers, the police scientist adjusted his telescope type instrument that was sitting on a tripod at the edge of a walkway lookout above the Marlborough Sounds bay. He glanced up at Detective Inspector Eliot Parkes.
"This is the spot where he would have controlled the speedboat, Eliot," he said. "Fits in with everything else we found out."
"That the remote control device was relatively crude and had to be manually controlled within line of sight?"
"True."
"But why this exact spot?"
Carter waved his hand out and pointed to a rocky outcrop. "Any further around and that would have blocked the view. This lookout leads up from the main track with only those steep shrub covered slopes going up or down on each side. They show no signs of being entered. Also this lookout is hi
