Frank Marker should stay clear of people dealing in property. They certainly are an obnoxious kind.
Allan Biddersloe comes to see Marker. He is a property developer with a volatile temper. He married into money, he has left his wife a broken woman and his daughter Anne (Lesley Anne Down) is disobedient who delights in winding him up.
Marker is invited into the house for a family dinner under the guise of a quantity surveyor. Biddersloe wants Marker to keep tabs on his daughter and some of her male friends who like to party.
Marker takes the opportunity to talk to the the housekeeper Barbara Lewson-Jones. He had seen her before in a shop buying a lot of beauty products which she paid in cash. He also finds that she has been to prison and grateful to get a second chance.
There are a lot of horrid people in this story. Anee sees through Marker and her two obnoxious male friends certainly delight in poking fun at him, they suspect he is an investigator.
Biddersloe did not visit Marker randomly. DI Firbank had recommended Marker to him. Firbank is aware that in these parties at various households, some items are being robbed.
Firbank suspects that the partygoers are pilfering but Barbara Lewson-Jones may not be above suspicion. It leaves Marker angry that he is being used.
A layered story where Marker thinks that he might have met a soulmate in Barbara. Two people trying to get on with their lives after a setback. So the reveal that she was behind the thefts with the unsavoury male friends of Anne was a sharp punch in the gut.
Marker obviously does not like Biddersloe or his brood but is professional enough to get the job done whatever the provocation and that includes Firbank.
Allan Biddersloe comes to see Marker. He is a property developer with a volatile temper. He married into money, he has left his wife a broken woman and his daughter Anne (Lesley Anne Down) is disobedient who delights in winding him up.
Marker is invited into the house for a family dinner under the guise of a quantity surveyor. Biddersloe wants Marker to keep tabs on his daughter and some of her male friends who like to party.
Marker takes the opportunity to talk to the the housekeeper Barbara Lewson-Jones. He had seen her before in a shop buying a lot of beauty products which she paid in cash. He also finds that she has been to prison and grateful to get a second chance.
There are a lot of horrid people in this story. Anee sees through Marker and her two obnoxious male friends certainly delight in poking fun at him, they suspect he is an investigator.
Biddersloe did not visit Marker randomly. DI Firbank had recommended Marker to him. Firbank is aware that in these parties at various households, some items are being robbed.
Firbank suspects that the partygoers are pilfering but Barbara Lewson-Jones may not be above suspicion. It leaves Marker angry that he is being used.
A layered story where Marker thinks that he might have met a soulmate in Barbara. Two people trying to get on with their lives after a setback. So the reveal that she was behind the thefts with the unsavoury male friends of Anne was a sharp punch in the gut.
Marker obviously does not like Biddersloe or his brood but is professional enough to get the job done whatever the provocation and that includes Firbank.