‘But as I told you, we’ve been working from another angle. Motive is what we looked for, and we’ve found it. Or more precisely, we’ve found someone here in the district who seems to have had a very strong motive for killing Shoulter. And that’s something to start on. ‘I need not go into all the inquiries we’ve made, or tell you how we’ve made them. The picture is fairly complete now, and what you’ve told me this afternoon goes a long way towards finishing it. A long way, but not right to the end. We’ve still got to get more direct evidence. But I don’t think that will be difficult. My experience is that once you know your man the evidence piles up pretty quickly. All right. Here’s the story. ‘Shoulter, as you already know, has never been much good. As a boy at school the only subject in which he showed any interest was chemistry, and his parents, who seem to have indulged him in anything he took a fancy to, encouraged him to make a career of analytical chemistry.
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