The Uninvited

the matter in hand, so I say, ‘I want to seeSunny Chen’s suicide note.’Ashok says, ‘Cops in Taiwan say itdoesn’t make sense.’ I see the white blobin his mouth as he speaks. ‘Turns out it’snot a note. Much weirder. Some littledrawings and a hand-print. Chen’s wifesays he can’t have done it. She’s veryinsistent. But she found it next to a shrinething they have in the kitchen, where theyleft each other messages. So sounds likewishful thinking to me. Didn’t know theChinese had shrines in their kitchens.Something new every day, right?’Sunny Chen said he’d made the handmarkin the timber factory himself. But atthe same time he’d wanted the police totake fingerprints. Why?‘I need to see the note. Have they taken