In the Old Success, the three of them had just got their pints set before them when Tom said, “Dr. Park was not giving much up. But when I mentioned Daisy, his silence told me I was on track. Turns out she took the baby from the foundling hospital.”

“Lines up, we know it was Daisy who left the baby in Hilda Noyes’s care. But never really left her. Daisy was checking in with Hilda for years. The years before—” Jury stopped, not wanting to say “she died.”

But Tom remained unflappable. “She would do. Daisy would do that for a woman in Manon Vinet’s position, even though she barely knew her. Daisy was like that.”

“I know,” said Jury. When Tom looked at him dubiously, Jury merely repeated it. “Believe me, I know.”

Tom dropped it and said, “Let’s hear these theories. He looked at Jury. “Your theory?”

“Zoe Noyes.”

“My God! That’d definitely be a black swan event. She’s what? Fourteen years old?”

Jury nodded. “It wouldn’t be the first time a kid had killed somebody, Tom. And she had a hell of a motive. Manon Vinet was coming to take Zillah away. For Zoe, that would be like taking her own child away. She said as much. Zillah had been with her since she was a baby. And Zoe substituted her own note for her aunt’s that got Manon to the beach. Zillah was scared to death. Zoe as good as admitted that she had a gun.”

Tom held up his hand. “Wait a minute. Where would Zoe get a gun?”

“Zoe had her father’s old SIG Sauer. There’s a collector on Bryher, Jack Couch, who really wanted it. They could have orchestrated a little trade.”

“No halfway responsible adult would make an exchange like that.”

“Maybe Jack isn’t all that responsible.”

“Then you’re settling on two shooters, because I see no way Zoe could have shot Tony Servino. Or Moira Quinn. Even if there were a motive, which I can’t see, either.”

“I agree. There must have been two shooters,” said Jury.

Tom looked at Melrose. “And yours?”

Melrose said, “Eleanor Summerston. Don’t look like that,” he said to Jury. “She’s the one with the most motive I’ve heard so far. It’s Gerald Summerston’s reputation. Lady Summerston would do anything to protect that, certainly get rid of Tony Servino, whom she hated anyway, and who’d probably been hired by Gerald to fix whatever needed to be, including this demand about the gallantry medal. It wouldn’t have aroused anyone’s suspicions if they’d seen Eleanor at Watermeadows that evening; after all, she owns the place. Eleanor was a keen shooter, better than the men who came to the weekend shooting parties. You didn’t notice the pictures on the wall of the library?