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GUILT BY HEREDITY?
“Look,” I insisted, “I have Jack Reid’s family history here in his file. The only male relatives he had at the time of him receiving the so-called journal were his father and his uncle, Mark Cavendish, Robert’s brother, and Mark was later found to have died, probably by committing suicide, in Malta.”
“Ah, but that’s where things began to get interesting,” said Wright. “Mike Holland banged off an e-mail to the police in Valetta, and the Maltese police came back to us with some very interesting information relating to the death of Mark Cavendish. It’s true that he was reported as dead but the evidence for that fact was sketchy at best. The police found his clothes on a rocky beach not far from Valetta. His wallet, credit card and money were all intact in the
