Frank had made several discreet enquiries as to Dick Davenport's surgical routine and had discovered that the good doctor worked out of his Beacon Hill surgery Tuesday to Friday, with Mondays spent at a nearby private clinic where he undertook the surgical procedures associated with IVF. With Joe's investigations into Jim Walker's death hitting a brick wall, he and Frank decided to come at this from another angle, and to follow an obscure lead Dan Martinelli had noted when the forensics reports first came in a number of weeks ago. It was a very long shot, and a detail only Davenport and perhaps one other person may have been aware of. But at this stage beggars could not be choosers, and so they set out to track down that second person who might have the information they were after. ‘The doc in?’ asked Joe, not bothering to reintroduce himself. They found the relaxed-looking Madonna Carrera giving herself a pedicure. With no doctor in the surgery, the dressed-to-the-nines assistant had obviously taken the opportunity to paint her toes a blazing shade of red.
