Chapter 15His leg hurt like the very blazes when he finally got back to the station. He limped through the procedure of releasing Miss Hall-Bridges and facing off her extremely intimidating solicitor and then collapsed behind his desk to complete the paperwork.
They had both hidden their surprise reasonably well when he told them Dr Marks was able to alibi Miss Hall-Bridges. Initially Miss Hall-Bridges hadn’t met his eyes. She’d allowed the solicitor to take charge of it all. But when he explained it was because of the meeting she’d had with Dr Marks in the upstairs hallway when Dr Marks was on her way back to bed after sitting in the kitchen for some time with a cup of tea, she’d raised her head and looked at him curiously. The solicitor had taken it in his stride. Presumably he was used
