A Voss and Pike Casefile: The First Case
Section 27: What Lyle Won't Say
"At our head office, forty miles away, in a board meeting with six witnesses," said Lyle. "I didn't need Professor Hume dead, Dr Voss. I needed him persuadable, which is a rather different and considerably less dramatic objective. His death is, from where I'm sitting, a public relations catastrophe I'd have paid a great deal to avoid."
It was, you had to admit, probably the most honest thing anyone at Thorncastle had told you all day.