Case For Three Detectives (1936) - Plot & Excerpts
“Could you tell me,” he began ponderously, “which of the ladies and gentlemen staying in the house lit their fires last night?” But Williams came to the rescue. “Really, Beef,” he said, “while these gentlemen have important questions to ask, I think we want to waste as little time as possible.” One or two others of us joined the appeal to Beef not to hold up the cross-examination, so that, after murmuring something about “having a pretty good idea, anyway” he was silent again. “See anything of your brother yesterday?” asked Lord Simon, returning indefatigably to his task of cross-examination. “No. Nothing at all.” “Yet it was his free afternoon.” “Was it? “How did you spend the afternoon?” Enid hesitated, and I had a curious intuition that she was going to tell a he. “Well,” she said at last, “I’d been up late the night before —reading. And not a detective novel either,” she put in tartly. “So that yesterday afternoon I felt sleepy, and went up to my room for forty winks.”
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