One, by John Frederick Herring, was of a piebald horse and worth a few thousand pounds. The Chiswell family owned two horse paintings of mares and their foals. Strike Is Back For a New BBC Series: Recapping Cormoran and Robin’s Story So Far By Louisa Mellor What was the deal with the horse paintings? That’s why Jasper was in such a bad mood when he arrived back at his office and placed the bottle of Kinvara’s pills on his desk. In fact, Raff was having sex with his step-mother Kinvara (whom he was manipulating so she would help him to kill Jasper so he could eventually inherit the suspected Stubbs painting, see above) something Jasper divined when he found a bottle of Kinvara’s prescription anti-depressants in the gallery.
Jasper went to visit Drummond about the sale, and learned that Raff had been caught in flagrante delicto with – it was assumed – a young assistant from the gallery. Raff had a work placement with Jasper’s friend, art dealer Henry Drummond, with whom Jasper was arranging a sale of some of the family’s art collection in order to pay off mounting debts. How did Jasper find out about Raff and Kinvara’s affair? There were photos of the hanging that showed the Uffington Horse symbol carved into the gallows, which identified Chiswell and Knight as their source, thereby incriminating him. He sold them illegally anyway and pocketed the cash, then one set of gallows was used in Zimbabwe to hang a British student who’d been kidnapped there. After Jack Knight’s death, Jasper was in possession of two gallows that he was legally unable to sell because of a change in the laws surrounding torture and execution equipment. He and estate employee Jack Knight were partners in the lucrative business of building gallows, which sold for £40k a piece. What was Jasper Chiswell being blackmailed about? Raff took the key disguised as a beggar, and used it to enter the house the next morning after his father had passed out from the spiked drink, then suffocated him and swapped the spiked orange juice carton in the fridge with a normal one to avoid detection. Honestly, posh people.) She spiked the orange juice carton the day before Jasper died, knowing that it was Jasper’s routine to drink a glass every morning, and then covertly passed the house key to Raff at Paddington train station before boarding a train to their Oxfordshire estate, making sure she’d been seen on the station CCTV, thus securing her alibi. Jasper’s orange juice was spiked by Kinvara with ground-up anti-depressants that she knew he wouldn’t be able to detect because he’d lost his sense of taste after she’d attacked him with a hammer years earlier (he’d had her favourite horse put down. Jasper disliked Raff and had disinherited him, so Raff started an affair with Kinvara and planned to marry her after Jasper’s death and then kill her a year or so later by staging a riding accident, meaning he inherited the valuable painting through her. Raff had seduced his step-mother Kinvara and convinced her to collude in the old man’s murder – ostensibly because he loved and wanted to be with her, but really so that he could get his hands on a family painting the value of which only he recognised. His illegitimate son Raphael (Raff), who had previously served a prison sentence for running down and killing a pregnant woman while driving under the influence, and was doing a convincing job of acting contrite about it.
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