I was a little surprised to wake up in the big bed at Belle’s house next to my co-investigator. However, there was no point in worrying about this: it was time to get up, washed, dressed, and off to work.

Belle had told me that the bath took an age to fill, so I left my companion under the eiderdown, padded through to the bathroom to start running the bath water, then wandered downstairs to find some breakfast. Unfortunately the problem with the water had resolved itself overnight and by the time I returned upstairs the bath tub was overflowing. The flood on the floor was about to leak straight through to the kitchen below.

Belle and I hastened to the bathroom with small jugs to empty the water from the tub. My co-investigator was nowhere to be seen.