‘Are you still there?’‘Apparently,’ Slider said gravely. ‘Was that all you rang to find out?’‘Don’t get snippy with me, my lad, or I shan’t tell you what just occurred to me.’‘Go on, then. I’ll buy it.’‘I have a strong feeling that the reason I thought I knew the name David Rogers was that he was involved in a scandal some time back. Normally I don’t pay attention to scurrilous gossip, but when it’s a doctor that’s involved, the old antennae tend to twitch all on their own.’‘Scurrilous, eh?’‘If it was the same man. Something about furgling a female patient.’‘That sounds like Rogers, from what we know of him. Could have furgled for England.’‘Now, I’m not certain, mind,’ Freddie warned. ‘As I said, it’s a pretty common name. But worth checking on?’‘Certainly. Thanks Freddie. Any idea when it happened?’‘Sorry, old horse. A longish time, anyway. But it was in all the papers. Bit of a cause celeb at the time. You ought to be able to track it down.
