“Melanie stayed too, afraid of missing something. Ben had heard nothing about the murder of the old lady, and was initially slow to take an interest. The incident in which Mr Kitchener had made a disturbance at Nancy Clark’s house and come to the attention of the police finally drew him in. ‘Well, they wouldn’t have taken his prints just for that,’ he asserted. ‘He must have been on file for something else. Something more serious.’‘Are you sure?’ Simmy queried. ‘My mother says they’ll grab any e...xcuse to take people’s DNA and so forth. They want everybody in their computers.’‘They definitely wouldn’t have taken his DNA. Besides, there wouldn’t have been time to do a comparison and get the results back, if the murder only happened yesterday morning. If they can be so precise about the time of death, that must mean somebody saw her alive shortly before it happened, and then the body was found pretty quickly afterwards. Leaves a short window, see? That’s why your alibi worked.’ ‘Yes,’ Simmy agreed thoughtfully.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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