Controlling interest

The body of a woman solicitor was discovered by staff arriving yesterday morning at the Holborn offices of the prestigious London solicitors, Mather's. Katrina Pankhurst had been shot. Police are investigating. A murder on the premises is bad news for a law firm. It discourages clients. It also discourages recruits which is damaging to a a firm like Mather's with a reputation, a lot of client, but very few partners. But as Dave Woolf, one-time lawyer, part-time boozer and (almost) full-time private eye realizes, 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 didgy business dating back forty years...