It was obvious that our priority was to trace the people who’d been at Diana Barton’s ‘kitchen’ party. But how we were to do that presented a problem. Several, in fact. ‘First of all,’ I began, ‘When Thomas Hendry gets here later today, I shall charge him with arson at twenty-seven Tavona Road on the night of Diana Barton’s murder. He strongly denied committing her murder, but held up his hands to setting fire to the house.’ ‘Has he got an alibi for James Barton’s topping, guv?’ asked DI Ebdon. ‘I’m fairly satisfied that the murder of James Barton is not down to him, Kate, but I’ll come to that later. However, I haven’t dismissed the possibility that he murdered Diana. And that means that we could be looking for two murderers.’ ‘But if he set fire to the Bartons’ house on the night of the murder, he must’ve topped Diana, surely,’ said Kate, unwilling to give up a promising suspect. ‘Why else would he have done it?’ ‘Yes, I know,’ I said, ‘but I’ll get to that.
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