To Wake the Dead (Dr. Gideon Fell series Book 9) by Carr John Dickson

Author:Carr, John Dickson [Carr, John Dickson]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781480472808
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2014-03-24T16:00:00+00:00

The writing-printing in red ink on the “quiet” sign, which might have been so promising a clue, ended in nothing. It was so much printing and so little writing that it had to be classified as the former; and could never be identified.

The two sets of finger-prints found in the room were his own and Jenny’s. Since the room had been cleaned and dusted by the maid just before Jenny moved into it, there were few old prints beyond smudges. Wrayburn, evidently by accident the first time and design the second, had left no prints at all.

Wrayburn was proved to have been speaking on the phone between midnight and three minutes past. Hadley, nothing if not thorough, set half a dozen persons to speak anonymously over the wire to Billings, the night-porter, and Billings had again identified Wrayburn’s voice at once.

There was nothing wrong with the clocks, and no possibility of tampering with them. They were all electric clocks, with glass fronts which did not come off; all were operated on Greenwich time from a central switch. If Dan had seen the figure in uniform outside Jenny’s door at two minutes past twelve, the time was exactly two minutes past twelve and no other.

Nothing, so far as could be ascertained, was missing from Jenny’s possessions. Melitta Reaper went through them and said she was certain of this. There were several good pieces of costume jewellery in Jenny’s trunk, in addition to £30 in notes in her handbag and travellers’ cheques for £400 on the Capital Counties bank. But there was no silver or loose change whatever in her handbag.

The batch of small folded cards, bearing the room-numbers of each guest, had in fact been handed to Dan. He did not definitely remember seeing the card for 707 among them, since he had not looked at them. But he confirmed Melitta’s statement that he had put them down on the bureau in their bedroom.

A detailed deposition from each of the persons concerned, regarding where they were at about two minutes past midnight, produced the following statements: Sir Gyles Gay had been reading in bed. Melitta Reaper had been taking a bath in the private bathroom of their suite. Francine Forbes had been “doing her hair” in her own room. Wrayburn and Dan were accounted for. Kenneth Hardwick, the hotel-manager who had been questioned along with the others, provided another alibi: from midnight until ten minutes past, in his own rooms, he had been going over the next day’s menus with the head-waiter of the Royal Scarlet dining-room.

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