It had lain fallow for months and then, when the client had at last made up its many minds, the job had been deemed urgent. He and Natasha took an early breakfast and escaped the clutches of their curious neighbours only to be bearded at the car door by a newspaper reporter. The media, it seemed, knew only that a man had been found dead. Under pressure by a practised interrogator to reveal who had found the body, Douglas had at length admitted that he had been present when the body was found. ‘But I did not see anything to explain the death,’ he said with truthfulness, ‘so bugger off. And you can quote me on that.’ ‘That goes for me too,’ said Tash; but she glanced at herself in the car’s wing mirror before she allowed the reporter to photograph her. The photograph, delicately airbrushed, eventually appeared along with a hint that it had been Tash who found the body. It was then that she learned that, in the view of the media, any dramatic event or provocative opinion is attributed to the prettiest girl in sight at the time.
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