Controlling Interest

The body of a woman solicitor was discovered by staff arriving yesterday morning at the Holborn offices of Mather's, prestigious London solicitors. Katrina Pankhurst, 32, had been shot. Police investigating a murder on the premises is bad news for a law firm, as it discourages clients. But as Dave Woolf, one-time lawyer, part-time boozer and (almost) full-time private eye realises, a thorough professional would prefer a murder to a leak any day of the week. Dead men can’t leak information on gambling debts, treachery, the darker side of freemasonry, and a dodgy business dating back 40 years.