Page 98 of Murder in the Family

Whoever stood to get the old lady’s cashbeforethe long-lost grandson turned up.

ALAN CANNING

Could have been the cats’ home.

BILL SERAFINI

Still—

LAILA FURNESS

So how do we find that out?

HUGO FRASER

Wills are public information. If we can find out where and when she died we can find out pretty easily who the money went to.

LAILA FURNESS

But by definition that will was made – or at least updated –after‘Luke’ died. It won’t tell us what the original one said.

HUGO FRASER

Clearly not, but it stands to reason that she probably reinstated the original recipients.

BILL SERAFINI

Can you pick up on that, Hugo? Track down the old lady’s will? If anyone knows their way round the British legal system, you do.

ALAN CANNING

I find it hard to believe the police didn’t establish that in 2003. Luke didn’t need to be an imposter for the will to be a factor.

HUGO FRASER

True, but I don’t remember anything in the paperwork we were given.

LAILA FURNESS

Neither do I.

BILL SERAFINI

Maybe you could talk to some of your old pals in the Met as well, Alan? See if anything comes up?

ALAN CANNING

I can try. Though I still have a pile of those old red MGBs to check.

BILL SERAFINI

That sort of work is tedious, but it can pay off in the end. So thank you – for what it’s worth.

LAILA FURNESS

OK, so what about the other suspects – does the fact that ‘Luke’ was an imposter make any difference where they’re concerned?

Rupert, for example – if he knew Caroline’s new husband was a fake would that give him a motive?

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