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The Fourth Son

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Spies

Yes, I know you were waiting for me to inject the spectre of espionage.

After all the new joking is an avid reader of thrillers and spy novels, so there had to be a hint of something going on.

It’s not as if he’s suspicious of his father’s death, not that it should be a big deal, considering the way his father had treated him and his brothers and sisters.

It’s like everyone is glad that he is dead, but trying not to let that show through because it just wouldn’t be right.  But it is like a heavy load had been lifted, and no one is talking about it.

As if that isn’t another conspiracy theory!

So, the autopsy reports are in, and it might be construed that the doctor made sure that evil didn’t rise again.  In anyone else’s book, that might be murder, but what were the circumstances?

This is not a matter for him to investigate, and he has been advised not to do it himself but to allow his head of security to carry out discreet enquiries.

This is not something that will raise its head until the next book in the series.

As for the spy, he believes he needs to look no further than his mother and her fellow countryman, who is currently in the city and who also covers his movements by being one of several investors.

They have a chat in the Gardens.