(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
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Novels, unpublished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