Death on the Air: and other stories. Ngaio Marsh

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СКАЧАТЬ said Alleyn, ‘I daresay he wouldn’t.’ When Chase had gone he said to Fox: ‘Go and find out about those boys and their alibis. See if they can put you on to a quick means of checking up. Get Master Guy to corroborate Miss Phillipa’s statement that she was locked in her room.’

      Fox had been gone for some time and Alleyn was still busy with his notes when the study door burst open and in came Dr Meadows.

      ‘Look here, my giddy sleuth-hound,’ he shouted, ‘what’s all this about Hislop? Who says he disliked Sep’s abominable habits?’

      ‘Chase does. And don’t bawl at me like that. I’m worried.’

      ‘So am I, blast you. What are you driving at? You can’t imagine that…that poor little broken-down hack is capable of electrocuting anybody, let alone Sep?’

      ‘I have no imagination,’ said Alleyn wearily.

      ‘I wish to God I hadn’t called you in. If the wireless killed Sep, it was because he’d monkeyed with it.’

      ‘And put it right after it had killed him?’

      Dr Meadows stared at Alleyn in silence.

      ‘Now,’ said Alleyn, ‘you’ve got to give me a straight answer, Meadows. Did Hislop, while he was semi-delirious, say that this habit of Tonks’s made him feel like murdering him?’

      ‘I’d forgotten Chase was there,’ said Dr Meadows.

      ‘Yes, you’d forgotten that.’

      ‘But even if he did talk wildly, Alleyn, what of it? Damn it, you can’t arrest a man 6n the strength of a remark made in delirium.’

      ‘I don’t propose to do so. Another motive has come to light.’

      ‘You mean – Phips – last night?’

      ‘Did he tell you about that?’

      ‘She whispered something to me this morning. I’m very fond of Phips. My God, are you sure of your grounds?’

      ‘Yes,’ said Alleyn. ‘I’m sorry. I think you’d better go, Meadows.’

      ‘Are you going to arrest him?’

      ‘I have to do my job.’

      There was a long silence.

      ‘Yes,’ said Dr Meadows at last. ‘You have to do your job. Goodbye, Alleyn.’

      Fox returned to say that Guy and Arthur had never left their parties. He had got hold of two of their friends. Guy and Mrs Tonks confirmed the story of the locked door.

      ‘It’s a process of elimination,’ said Fox. ‘It must be the secretary. He fixed the radio while deceased was upstairs. He must have dodged back to whisper through the door to Miss Tonks. I suppose he waited somewhere down here until he heard deceased blow himself to blazes and then put everything straight again, leaving the radio turned on.’

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