‘Was she going to stay with family?’

‘Oh no. She didn’t get on that well with her mum and dad. They hated Frank, you see. Her dad called him a disgusting council estate lothario. Whatever that means.’

‘Where do you think she was going for the date?’

Jackie bites her lip. Her eyes well and she doesn’t seem to hear the question. ‘I should have done something sooner. She might be alive now. It’s just so hard to think that she isn’t here anymore.’ She sniffs and wipes her eyes.

‘Was she going to stay with this new man?’

‘Yeah. She said she might leave London. I know that much.’

‘Where was she thinking of going, Jackie? Please try and think.’

‘I honestly don’t know. She said something about being out of London in the clean, open air. She loved the countryside. It was her dream to live there one day.’

‘This man she met. Was he from the country?’

Jackie blows her nose. ‘I really don’t know.’

‘Do you know where she met him?’

She pauses to think.

‘She said he knew her from years back. But I think they must have met later at Infernos or somewhere like that. They had been messaging each other on WhatsApp. He’d been really sweet to her saying all kinds of nice things, which she wasn’t used to hearing.’

‘Could you give me Elaine’s number?’

‘Yes. I’ll write it down.’

‘Please text it to me. That way you have my number also, in case you think of anything else.’

Archer gives Jackie her number. She’d have Klara look at Elaine Kelly’s phone activity later.

‘Could you send me those photos of the note and Elaine with her injuries also? I noticed on your screensaver there is a picture of you and Elaine at a nightclub. Do you think you could send me that?’

Jackie nods her head.

‘Is that picture recent?’ she asks.

‘Yeah. It’s from the beginning of November. That was the last time we went to Infernos together. Actually, I think I saw her talking to a man that night – but I didn’t get a good look at him.’

‘Which date?’

Jackie checks the date on her phone. ‘The second.’

‘Thank you.’

‘Yes. Oh, there’s one other thing. He gave her a brand-new phone and told her that they must communicate only using it. No one must ever know of it, he said to her. He paid for it too. He told her that it would be their private number. You know, just like the song.’

Elaine was given a private phone to communicate with the man who was to become her killer. Archer has heard enough for the time being. Elaine’s husband and her mysterious love interest are now suspects and she has to somehow track them down.