Episode 16 - Not too hot to handle

Wednesday cont. then Thursday

Cleo was forced to admit to herself that the Tom Crowe case was now too big for the Hartley Agency. Not only did she have no way of locating Jack Coppins if he had gone to ground, but even if she found him she could not persuade him to give himself up if he had decided not to.

Episode15 - Nailing Coppins

Wdnesday afternoon

Mrs Baines had not been forewarned of a visit, so Cleo and Dorothy  waited one the doorstep for quite some time after banging the brass gargoyle that served as a door knocker.

Episode 14 - Disclosures

Wednesday, May 9th

Cleo left early for HQ. She had made a list of questions she wanted to ask Coppins. She thought she was on the verge of a breakthrough with Jessie, but only Coppins could know the story. It remained to be seen whether he would be cooperative.

Episode 13 - Catch as catch can

Tuesday cont.

Dorothy was quite relieved to leave the crime world for an hour or two , thought it got later and later as Mr Morgan drove his old-timer at a modest pace along the quiet roads, negotiating even slower farm-vehicles and occasional tail-backs between Swansea in Wales and Upper Grumpsfield somewhere in Oxfordshire. Eventually he was able to park his little black Morris Minor near St Peter’s Parish Church. Mr Morgan was inordinately happy to be back again..