Dear Jo,

After some analysis of your findings, it seems that Monday was far from just an ordinary day.

So, we have Mr Brown working from 8pm-8am, seven nights a week on rotational shifts. He’s worked with the same firm for fifteen years and at this site for five years, so was familiar with everything that went on at Knight’s Quarter. I would say that whatever he has to say, however insignificant, holds the clue to this case.

The cameras in his office showed views of the car park, entrance to individual suites, but not their interior. Mr Brown saw her car parked, and a woman he identified as our subject.

The Samson’s seem oblivious to Miss Johnson’s life passing away whilst they worked, cleaning the office suite and possibly the evidence away. Again, the clues are all there, aren’t they? Miss Johnson arrived in the midst of their routine, so her room must have been attended to. They claim to have not seen her or any sign of her necklace.

The layout of the suite is interesting; it being like a donut ring. The inner ring was the hub; the workshop aspect of the company, with an open plan reception area at the entrance. Moving clockwise from there was the kitchen, Miss Johnson’s office, storeroom, toilets, meeting room, and Miss Wright’s office.

Mrs Samson started cleaning clockwise and her husband anticlockwise meeting in the hub. They used one vacuum cleaner each and cleaned their own half of the room. It’s all ritual. What happened? What was out of place?

Mrs Samson doesn’t remember anything different in the kitchen when she cleaned it, just mugs left to soak in the sink from the previous day. Following fits of uncontrollable coughing, she returned to get a glass of water. Mr Samson returned to the kitchen and washed it along with a mug. He assumed she hadn’t cleaned up the kitchen. Poor Mrs Samson was struggling outside with her coughing so left her husband to finish putting the cleaning gear away in their van.

There’s something hidden in front of our eyes. Do you see it?

Yours

Swan