Martin Edwards


InDex


(Being an extract from a draft index to Celebrity Lawyer, the autobiography of Jude Wykeham)

Wykeham, Jude

Affair

    With Esther Yallop

Autobiography

  Mysterious disappearance of

  Paid enormous sum to write

  Posthumous publication, anticipated

Guilt

    Presumed motive for suicide

Launch Party

  Meets Esther Yallop at

Police investigation of

  Errors in

    Fake suicide note, misled by

Publisher

  Shared with Esther Yallop

Puerto Banus,

  Purchase of holiday home at

  Weekends spent with Esther Yallop in

Queen’s Counsel

  High earnings as

  Rhetorical skills

  Seduction, persistent employment of when engaged in

  Strangling

    Suspected of

  Suicide

    Apparent

Yallop, Esther

Dress

  Expensive tastes in

  Provocative

Erotic poems

  Authorship of

  Lover, dedicated to

Husband, boredom with

Sarcasm, gift for

Strangulation of

  Pleasure taken in

    Remorse for, subsequent

Yallop, William

    English degree, uselessness of

Indexer, part-time employment as

Manuscript

    Re-writing of

    Theft of

Novels, unpublished

  Personality

Despair, tendency to

      Obsessive

  Revenge, lust for

Writing,

Career, literary

      Experimental nature of

      Failure in

Celebrity Lawyer, determination to compile index for

Confession

     Double murder, to

      Index, by means of