‘That’s our best guess,’ Posy said, glancing between Rosalind and Caro but not mentioning the sugared flowers. ‘We won’t know for sure until the post mortem is done.’

‘If they bother to do one at all,’ Harry said. ‘Those police seemed happy enough it was his heart.’

‘We’ve been talking about it with the others,’ Heather went on. ‘You know, figuring out the timelines, who was where when, and the motives of course. I assume that’s what you three were really doing on the panel this morning.’

‘The point is,’ Caro went on, standing up and pacing in front of the bench, ‘someone must have really wanted Marcus dead. And given some of the things he was up to, that’s hardly surprising. Now, we know that you were in business with Marcus, before his death—’

‘I wouldn’t call it business, exactly,’ Harry interrupted. ‘More … sometimes he had things for sale, and we bought them. That was all.’

‘And you never, say, asked Marcus to procure you something in particular?’ Rosalind’s eyebrows were raised in disbelief as she stared at the jewelled magnifying glass hanging at Heather’s waist. ‘Something that might not have ordinarily come onto the public market?’

Heather shifted so that the magnifying glass fell behind her jacket. ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about.’

Caro sighed. ‘Heather, we have Marcus’s ledger. We have the details of everything he ever sold you – as well as who he bought it from and what price was paid. Including the occasions where he paid nothing for them at all.’

Heather’s face lost its pinkness, fading to bone white. Harry’s complexion, meanwhile, had turned bright red and bullish. ‘I’m an honest businessman – a retired honest businessman. Never been a whiff of scandal about any of my business dealings. So I don’t know what you’re insinuating—’

‘That you asked Marcus to arrange for certain items to be stolen and given to you in exchange for a fee.’ The truth sounded so sordid in Rosalind’s clipped tones.

‘We certainly did nothing of the sort,’ Heather blustered. ‘I won’t deny that we’ve bought some nice pieces of memorabilia from Marcus over the years, there’s nothing wrong with that. They’re our nest egg, see. What we’re going to retire on.’

‘As long as this new movie of yours is a success, anyway,’ Harry added. ‘We need Lettice’s star to rise again so we can sell them off for a good price. That’s just good business.’

‘Everyone’s got a lot riding on this movie,’ Posy said, mildly. Caro figured they’d better hope Anton stuck to whatever deal Posy had enforced on him to make it a success.

‘So you’re saying that you never asked Marcus to steal any items of memorabilia for you?’

‘No,’ Heather said, quickly. Too quickly.

‘Or bought any items you knew to be stolen?’ Rosalind clarified.