The Elusive Bullet (Fantasy and Horror Classics)
By John Rhode
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The Elusive Bullet (Fantasy and Horror Classics) - John Rhode
‘BY THE WAY, professor, there’s something in the evening papers that might interest you,’ said Inspector Hanslet, handing over as he spoke the copy he had been holding in his hand. ‘There you are, Prominent City Merchant found dead
. Read it, it sounds quite interesting.’
Dr Priestley adjusted his spectacles and began to read the paragraph. The professor and myself, Harold Merefield, who had been his secretary for a couple of years, had been sitting in the study of Dr Priestley’s house in Westbourne Terrace, one fine June evening after dinner, when Inspector Hanslet had been announced. The inspector was an old friend of ours, who availed himself of the professor’s hobby, which was the mathematical detection of crime, to discuss with him any investigations upon which he happened to be engaged. He had just finished giving the professor an outline of a recent burglary case, over which the police had confessed themselves puzzled, and had risen to go, when the item in the newspaper occurred to him.
‘This does not appear to me to be particularly interesting,’ said the professor. ‘It merely states that on the arrival of the 3.20 train this afternoon at Tilbury station a porter, in examining the carriages, found the dead body of a man, since identified as a Mr Farquharson, lying in a corner of a first-class carriage. This Mr Farquharson appears to have met his death through a blow on the side of the head although no weapon capable of inflicting such a blow has so far been found. I can only suggest that if the facts are as reported, there are at least a dozen theories which could be made to fit in with