Hunter, Bruce

I met Pamela Branch only once, at a dinner party given by the literary agent David Higham and his wife. Pamela was strikingly beautiful, with large eyes, curious as a cat’s. The talk turned to an author whose new novel was getting a lot of attention and I remarked that her husband had recently died. ‘How did she do it?’ asked Pamela with interest, ‘Poison, was it?’