Bingham Pursues a Minister's Clerk

<p>Robert Courtney had been missing for several months along with a quarter of a million pounds from some Treasury budget. There had been the usual splash in the papers the usual rush and tear of reporters in the village and then all had gone quiet. The police seemed unable to find the young man which had puzzled Bingham and annoyed his friend Simon Brockie the retired Detective Chief Inspector who had seemed disinclined to discuss the matter. </p><p><br></p>