The Uninvited

laughed. He went on to speculate that themystery man was in fact female, and thewife of a Jenwai manager who had beenhaving an affair with a bar-girl. Thisprompted further theories: a shop-floorgrudge, a power tussle between seniormanagers, a rival company’s attempt tobring Jenwai down, infiltration by ecocampaigners.I spent the rest of the dayprobing deeper, only to find the actualevidence was either thin or non-existent.It’s often the case, at the beginning of aninvestigation, that you spend eight hours inan over-air-conditioned office, learningwhat seems barely one level up fromrumour. It’s only later that you might spota stray detail that’s part of a biggerpattern, and things fall into place. Over 80per cent of the time, that doesn’t happen.