Status Updates From The Murder Room (Adam Dalgl...

Mrs. Faraday was extremely suspicious I am curious to see what they find out when they go against her wishes and interview her son Selwyn ( which by the way is a very cool name )

On pg 214 Mrs. Faraday explains that her child had an extremely intelligent father but even so , that her son had turned out barely literate . Dalgliesh expressed how good looking her son was before that. My question is since this book was written in 2003 is this about the time when the author would have seen real life instances of the chemicals in the environment and added to food starting to affect her community?