[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Insurance. You may be on to something there.

Rumpole had a case like that once. The owner of the store "fenced" his wine and had one of the Malloys in the frame for heisting it, the Malloy-in-question's wife participating in the frame up, leaving clews all over their flat to incriminate him, whilst she intended to run off with the wine merchant once old Malloy was in the gaol.

[BradyLS]

Hmm. I'll bet the clews were meant to throw Rumpole off the trail! :-)