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from school and we have difficulty getting her to come here with us.’
    â€˜Then you’re probably right to keep this from her. The fewer people who know about it, the better. It’s almost certainly a crank, and cranks thrive on publicity. If he gets no reaction at all, he’s likely to get bored and either cease his activities altogether or go away and torment someone else. I presume you’re willing to let me take these things away?’
    Lisa shuddered. ‘Very willing indeed. I hope I never see them again.’
    Bert Hook smiled as reassuringly as he could. ‘And I hope they don’t become exhibits A and B in a court case. I think that is very unlikely.’
    Jason Ramsbottom looked at the two items which had caused them so much dismay and discussion. ‘I don’t expect you’ll get much from them. He’s covered his tracks pretty well, hasn’t he?’
    Bert looked down at the messages again. ‘The newspaper technique is quite common now – you aren’t the only one who watches crime series. People think it makes them anonymous, but sometimes they reveal more about themselves than they think they are doing. The sources they use for their letters can be revealing. Even the glues they use have sometimes given pointers.’ He was clutching at straws: it wasn’t easy to identify anonymous letter-writers until you could question suspects, and there were at present far too many candidates. ‘Have you any thoughts yourselves about who might have done this?’
    The couple glanced at each other again before Lisa said, ‘We’ve thought about it, obviously, but we haven’t come up with anyone. We’ve only had this place for two years. We hardly know many of the people who are around when Twin Lakes is busy at weekends.’
    â€˜Has anyone shown a particular interest in you? Tried to find things out about you and the way you live your lives?’
    Jason shook his head. ‘No. People ask you what you do for a living when you’re on the golf course or in the bar at weekends, but that’s natural enough – it’s no more than a means of getting a conversation going, most of the time.’
    Lisa said, ‘There’s Debbie Keane, of course. She wants to know everyone’s business, not just ours. But that’s because she lives here almost all the time and hasn’t enough to occupy her. She’s a nosey parker, but there’s nothing vicious about her. I couldn’t see her being responsible for this.’
    â€˜But if she pries into people’s lives, she might have some idea about who would be vicious enough to go to the trouble of devising notes like these. Because there’s quite a lot of care and labour gone into those notes. And you might not be the only victims. Have you heard of anyone else who’s been badgered with the same sort of threats?’
    â€˜No. But we haven’t enquired. Jason thought we should keep our own troubles to ourselves. I’ve chatted to other women on the site, half-hoping to hear that they’ve had letters like ours. But no one has seemed even slightly alarmed or disturbed.’
    Bert sighed. ‘I now have to ask you the most embarrassing question. Is there anything in either of your lives which could make you the subject of threats like this? Nothing excuses these notes, but it might help us to identify the culprit if you could give us some clue to their resentment. Have you offended anyone in the recent past? It might not be anything very serious – the person who has compiled these notes isn’t likely to be rational or balanced.’
    Again they looked at each other for a couple of seconds before Jason turned to Hook and said firmly, ‘No. We discussed this, seeking some sort of reason for these notes. But we haven’t come up with anything.’
    â€˜I need hardly say that anything you tell me here will be treated as strictly