And now it's Saturday night theater.
The case of the late Pig by Marjorie allingham.
Dramatist for radio by Gregory Evans with James.
Snell is Albert Campion and several shops as lug The case of
the late Pig. The main thing to remember in
autobiography, I always thought is not to let any damn modesty
creep in to spoil a story. Adventure is mine Albert kempens
and I think I was pretty near brilliant in it though.
I must admit, I nearly got myself, an do like killed and
even now I hear a hop quintet, whenever I consider it, it
begins with me eating in bed log.
I want to explain is my gentlemen, he's an old more
Stallion and he came straight from serving time at his
Majesty's pleasure to serving me at mine some time ago like
acquired the habit of reading the times to me while I eat
whether I like it or not. His taste doesn't run towards
the literary in journalism so he only reads the columns that
appealed to him. He reads the deaths.
How about this one? It Peters.
I was reading a letter. It interested me particularly
because it was both flowery and unsigned log laid down the paper
with gentle exasperation now anyone copious cock, hmm, go go.
Pete as rih. 37 on Thursday, the 9th that tebron after a Onis,
funeral. Tedran cheaters, did you say RI
Peters why? Now him.
Oh no, no no. Oh, we were at school together.
Sweet little angels and some bottles.
Abby Pig Peters took three inches of skin off my chest with
a rusty penknife to show. I was his branded slave.
He made me weep till I was sick and I kicked him in the belly.
Then he held me over an unlighted, gas-jet, until I
passed out. I'm I haven't seen Peter since I
went into the sticker with carbon monoxide poisoning, I
promised him. Then I'd go to his funeral.
I'll get your black soap. A lot ganache funeral when it's
someone, you know, come look at this.
What do you make of it? Why should they die?
He was so young this. What?
Come this morning? Yeah, there are thousands more
thin than a, for the journey payers, pay us Seth the angel,
why he was so strong. So I'm prepared.
The roots are red in the earth and the century creep, Earth on
its way. Why should the mon move
backwards? It is not yet 11.
Well, But at the prayer book, don't be an idiot.
Y'all remember, loading it? When I was a Nipper, what's the
machine then? Royal portable?
No, no peculiarities. Nothing special about the paper
sold everywhere. The let's see the envelope.
Oh wc1 the old Central stamp that Chuck it in the fire Dan
Peters. You see this?
And the announcement dumpy Dove sling.
It in the fire. Like got up and waddled out with
the tray. I Peters.
It was Pig. All right, I remember him.
Booting me to persuade me to call him rip.
He was the major evil in my life, along with the devil
Injustice and Latin prose when he fed.
Collection of leaf skeletons to the junior.
Start a fire. I wished he was dead.
Remembering the incident. 20 years later, I was mildly
surprised to find that I still did.
I just did a look at the map now.
Whatever in is Siobhan, couple of miles west to Keepsake.
We can pop into our Waters and Cecily.
Oh, I don't know. And Miss Janet, I suppose that's
what decided me so Leo bus. We've endures Chief Constable of
the county and a lovely old boy. He's got a daughter.
Janet I still like her in spite of everything.
Tethering. It was hardly on Fett, a
ploughed hill with a huddle of cottages on it.
The churchyard in late winter was a sodden mass of dead cow
parsley, overgrown and pathetic. Peters had been an ordinary
unlovable sort of twerp and he was being buried in an ordinary
unloved. Sort of way, I began to wish I
hadn't bothered coming. But then as we were standing by
the graveside in the light rain, We therefore commit his body to
the ground Earth to Earth, ashes, to ashes.
You always happy with it. What's the matter of the
Resurrection to eternal life Pig and civil rebooting habits even
12 and 100? Fish this way of clearing his
throat, just heard it for the first time.
I'm in 20 years. Amen.
Four hours of come to see Pig laid to rest, a pleasant stolid
looking chap. A girl in rather flashy black a
rather nasty old man. And what are you doing here?
Oh, well, you see, I didn't answer and without thinking, I
raised my hand to clip him. He never did answer unless he
was clipped and force of habit was too much for me Gilbert
whip. It had been my junior.
At some bottles, I hadn't seen him for 15 years, but he still
look the same. It's about as easy to describe.
With it is water or sound in the night.
I can't really say what he looks like.
They're presumably has got a fit since it would be an Omission.
I be sure to observe some her he made me unreasonably angry but
it what are you doing at pigs funeral?
I was invited. I think yes I had this came this
morning. Why should he die?
He was so young. There are thousands more fitting
than he for the journey but goes on in.
The same vein. Yeah odd about the mole.
I mean in formal invitation I suppose our I am Caine who
drifted away as that were nothing to keep him in.
Place he left the letter in my hand.
It was identical to the one that I had received that same
morning. As I came out of the church out,
I noticed the stolen, Pleasant looking chap glanced at me
inquiringly. I went over to him, wondering
how to put the question that was in my mind.
He helped me out, sad business, quite young, you know?
I didn't know. I mean, I was at school with an
RI Peters and when I saw the times this morning, I thought
when I got here, I felt I felt it must be some other Peters Big
Man, Too Fat at Sandy hair. And light lashes went to school
cheapskate Yes, that was the man.
I knew sad business. He came to me after
Independence. Ectomy shouldn't have had it
really weak. Heart picked up a touch of
pneumonia on the way down. Well, I see what you say to
Portrait. I'm in practice here from the
nursing home, over the hill taking a few convalescence,
never had a death. Yeah, we stood, there chatting
aimlessly for a while and then I went back to town.
I didn't call into high waters to Celia and Janet, I wasn't in
the mood pigs. Funeral had rattled me somehow,
left a sort of half her death. Echo in my ears later.
I looked at some old-school, photographs and had a good look
at him. You could see even then what he
was going to turn into. But it was nothing to get
excited about. He was dead, I shouldn't see him
again. Well, all that was in January by
June. I'd forgotten the fellow, and
then Janet had Janet pursuivant rang up.
I'd never heard her hysterical before.
She was twittering into the phone like a nest of sparrows.
I want you to call it a bottles. I can't say it over the phone,
but he uses it and this man. Albert M4, mother.
You thought unicorn Arthur rabbit Diva, darling offer.
No, no, I mean are for Noe for Albert murder, hang on, I'll be
there. Yeah, I was standing on the
steps of high waters when lug and I drove up, he came down to
the car and grasped my hand. Kenny told you, yes, not a word,
not a word move over the more trees behind the police station.
I'll direct you. What's your opinion?
We're going to trust you. I'm going to thought you might
have been configured. Anyway.
Right. That's good in here.
They're under the sheet. Take a look.
I said nothing lying on the table was the body of pig
Peters. He was unmistakable.
And I knew without touching his limp body hand that he hadn't
been dead for 12 hours yet in January.
And this was June, dead. Fir downloadable cab or not to
say perhaps, but you knew him who made him removed unpleasant
interview with him only last night.
Rather awkward in the circumstances.
What is he calling self aliases? He likely, it never occurred to
me, Harris old world Harris more money than was good for him.
And the manners of an enemy NGO. Terrible fella See the wound.
It's hard not to it looks as if he's been kicked through a felt
hat. I can't horse very good.
Damn nearly right substitute earn for carthorse and your bang
on the button. Turn uranium earn Stone, big
so-called all a mental thing Madness to keep them on the
parapet. Always said so sir a stone urn
fell off a parapet. Very good, very good.
Except the fell apart, but no way around it.
The urn was one of several all firm as the Rock of Gibraltar
must have been pushed. I see, damned awkward.
Let's do. I thought you'd agree with me.
So you know what you want. I glanced down at the corpse
Pig, certainly dead. Again five months after the
funeral, there was enough mystery and the business
already, I kept my contribution to myself.
I let the sheet for back. I couldn't believe that Leo had
dragged me down here just to confirm his suspicions.
That pig a died from a bang on the head.
There was more to come. I have a talk with you.
Private matters will get out a whole, night's sleep or poppy.
Have a look at one or two. The in Hot Lights.
Is that where it happened? Come on, getting chilly in here,
as we walked to the Lagonda, I consider the business Hall
tonight. You see, if Keepsake is a sort
of County eat Which I suppose it is hot nights.
Well, that's the Rose Garden keepsakes as perfect a village
as you can. Imagine Norman Church Village
Green to Splendid pads on one side.
It's got an estuary on the other.
A ring of modest. Estates halt nights is the
largest a rundown for a long time.
Just a millstone around. Someone's Noble neck.
Then poppy, Baloo retired from the stage and bought it and
well, she turned it into the finest hotel and Country Pub in
the Kingdom with an 18-hole, Golf Course, attached or very
lazy and homely and comfortable and now, but would reach the
cars by then Leo, was looking at lug with mistrust, I stepped in
luck, I'm gonna drive. So, Leo over the whole
tonight's. You better go back to high
waters. Take a bus or something, a bus.
Pass. Yes, one of those big green
things. You must have seen them about.
Extraordinary fellow your man, save your life in the ward.
To do not know why I just cross my mind.
Serious business. As you know yeah more than half
a dozen. Good Fellows including myself.
We're in a good mind to put that.
Harris chap out of the way last night.
Was one of us must have lost his head.
I better stop the car. Is he Harris was going to buy a
whole tonight by the knights, how I thought it was a bit in
debt. Apparently, she'd accepted a
mortgage from some fellow in London.
Nice, chap. Good terms, seems he was an
agent for Harris? I see how is came to the hotel
and started bragging. Throwing his weight about said
he was going to rip up the golf course close the hotel.
Build a dog track a dance hall, a funfair biopsy.
The other states perhaps would have killed a village of yeah
killed it. We try to buy the mortgage back
me. And some of the other fellows he
wouldn't have it. He was such a bore and then this
morning he was sleeping in a deck chair.
I don't know and fell on his head.
Damned awkward. Campion Holt mates on a June
evening. Breathtaking, the lawn Rises to
the Georgian facade of crushed strawberry brick, and the high
chestnuts Mass behind as we pulled up, the place seemed
deserted, I decided to have a look at the spot straight away.
Leo. Let me round at the Terrace,
where the deck, chairs, flimsy, and oddly Japanese looking in
their bright colors, struggled along under the windows there.
Under that sack just fell off the parapet and good gone.
That's where the best part of a hundredweight.
Surprised it didn't smash him to pulp dancing.
Bloomer boy, there's the chair over there.
Not evil firewood, her you don't have I'm solving and snoozing we
were playing cards in the lounge, none of us V Graham.
Child is view like whether you are fella was an unmitigated
tick. Clouds are blowing up but all
those poppy. Let's go in.
Good to see you. Mmm.
Leo. You're a lamb to send for you.
Come and have a drink, isn't it awful?
Such a horrid man. It's not easy to describe
popping over 50. I Spurs tight.
Gray, curls wide-mouthed enormous blue eyes has the easy
part. The rest.
Well she's friendly generous with a sort of naive.
Obstinacy. She dresses with enough Frills
to rear frigate. It suits her nature, did not
Figure, you see her and you liked it.
That's what was doing wrong with someone.
I'm not being silly. A my Albert, I did tell them.
It was dangerous. I said it would lead to trouble
last night. When have you told him?
Well, I too must, it's not fair. I'm coming to it.
I wouldn't hurt him down here, half an hour.
It was like this two or three of the more hearty old pets.
Hatched a plot. They were going to get Harry's
drunk and get him to sign a document relinquishing the
option, right? Well, Yes, I told him it was
dishonest. I said it wouldn't work and
well, it didn't. How do you just got truculent
and bars down. We had to put him to bed.
He went to sleep it off on the Terrace next morning and that
beastly thing fell on him. Awkward, you see a damned
awkward, use inspector, Percy and Pew.
She's such a nice man. He's been through the servants
with a toothed. Comb hasn't found a thing, not
even a brain, poor Ducks. Joe you dogs like one of the
guests and I only have Such dire people, there's going to be a
hellish scandal. I think I better see that
parapet. We go home, a boy, their slates
on all this should be well, any Theory, I might have had about a
feather. Brain cat is out of the
question. Yeah, I know someone must have
lifted the thing up before they pushed it out.
The parapet sweat here. It just underneath where the urn
would have stood. Yeah, that notice that you know
why? It is no idea, no water,
anywhere else on the parapet. But it must have been under the
iron. Yeah.
Look there minsang down the drive horrible little man.
Yes. Do you know him?
No Papi seems to their he'd been hanging around here recently.
Must have a boat with her about that.
Let's go down. I glanced out of the window.
And saw the little figure at the bottom of the drive.
I recognized him immediately principally because of the
extraordinary sensation of dislike, he aroused in me, the
Time I'd seen him was five months ago, weeping
ostentatiously into an enormous black handkerchief at pigs first
funeral. As I stirred the Lagonda back
towards high waters through the yellow evening light, I did a
bit of constructive thinking. I'm not one of those
intellectual sleuths of the mind like an adding machine.
I'm more like a bloke that a sack and the spiked stick.
I collect all the odds and ends and turn up the bag in the lunch
hour. Well, it seemed to me then that
the bag was pretty well full and I had a fair idea what was going
to come tumbling out. One of potties guested.
Clearly got overprotective and sad business, I felt but
thankfully almost over, I had no idea.
Then what was still in store. As we drove down the narrow
Village Street, I thought of Pig and his two funerals past and
present. I asked Leah a question was
casually as I could. Yeah.
Just cause I know just across the field.
Isn't there a nursing home there?
Yeah. Run by Brian Kingston
Goodfellow, very small original easy.
No no she no, not Kingston big fellow.
You like him. Dear chap.
Coming to dinner tonight. Just the four of us, you know,
and well then very well. I playing a hand with him.
In this confounded, own fell and made all these Trouble bridge if
all lunch good grief, no Boca. We were just settling up
whenever Shadow fell past the window, and there was a sort of
thud one than ordinary sudden and unpleasant didn't like the
look of him. Did you dangerous for the ferry
had set the dogs on instinctively who are Japanese
or skulking around in the night's top of your body but he
just brushed it off. I I think I've seen him before
where Where was that? However, funeral somewhere, very
likely. As we rode up the drive to high
waters Janet came down the steps to meet us.
She fussed about Leo lovingly before she bumbled him off to
change for dinner her attitude to me, however, was rather
different. I said you'd be in for dinner
Largo, so that's it. What's he done now?
Lug, I like log your girlfriend, girlfriend?
Did she leave a name? Yes, she did.
Miss Effie. Rowlandson never heard of that.
We'll see a nice girl. No no she was not.
So I went into high waters alone, old pepper, pottering
around, in the hall, during the odd jobs that battle as do seem
pleased to see me. Nice to have you back at high
water sir. Thank you, Peppa the letter came
for you this morning, so it's on the chest.
You're in your usual room, sir, I'll bring up your bags.
Good Lord, I beg pardon so none of them.
Oh, Seth VR o, Samba the Frog. Oh, mourneth the worm.
Where is Peter's? That was promised us.
It Angel weepers behind golden bars.
His wings cover his face, his face.
Why should these things be? Who was he to disturb the Evans?
Consider, oh, consider the Lao Li Mo.
He's ends are so Any snout bleeders, same envelope and
papers. The first a pleasure to read,
poor little mo analysis, largets, what I want not
sentiment help me with this tie, right?
I got four minutes to get down to the dining room and now a
frog, a Worman an angel. They're all upset because it
can't find this year. Peter keep still.
Well, that's clear in it and it was Peters.
It was under that sheet as morning.
Same queer. What'd he die of flower pot on
the head with intent, where a, my cufflinks dad's rubbish.
That note, I told you Chuck it in a fire.
The pointer seem to have missed is that Peters died this
morning? Well, the note was posted last
night so the bloke what posted it knew that Peters was going to
die today. Yeah, well maybe I was wrong a
little moles, our Prophet, the puff pastry.
Has a sausage in it. After all. but Charlie, stick
most likely I arrived at the dining room with half a second
to spare and Peppa regarded me with affection, which is more
than Janet, did, I was sorry to say, I sat down and found myself
next to the pleasant-looking chat with whom.
I had chatted at pigs tethering. Funeral, Braun.
Kingston I think we met before another funeral in are
tethering. Yeah, that cat we saw Hall
tonight. You know, Gary?
Mm. Yes, Kingston says, he's staying
in the village at mrs. Swift's apparently this mr.
Hey, ho, what's your name? Hey, ho, well, apparently, they
ho. Hey, ho idiotic name must be
false. Don't think so.
Hey, who is quite a common name? No, I don't believe it.
Look, this is hardly the time to be funny.
Kingstown is a serious business idea but it's very serious.
Oh, no, she wasn't. Hey, ho that queer.
Fellow at the funeral business deal.
Yes. Yes I think he was there was all
sort of girl that I remember that.
Wait a minute. What?
I just thought of something perhaps we can have a chat after
dinner. Did you know Peters?
Well not Not intimately, he wasn't a nice chat.
I think I'm on to something can't tell you here, but we
didn't get a chance to talk after dinner.
The inspector in charge of the case came to see Leo and he
excused himself, taking me with him we adjourn to the gunroom.
Well in pusey what have you come up with?
I don't know what to make of it said it seems like we've made a
mistake but where it is I can't tell you.
I spent the whole day questioning people and And no
one but Celia has a decent Alibi.
No sir everyone has an alibi and a good one too.
They all knew each other. Well, one of them couldn't have
done it unless unless what we'll go on, man, we're in Lodge here
unless all the gentleman you say, unless you they unless they
were all in it together conspiracy.
Is that what you think? Well, sir, it hardly.
Seems well, I don't know, I don't know.
Puree, which an idea are you but couldn't have been.
So in this case they would have all had to be in it, don't you
see? And I was there.
Yes. Of course sir.
I was forgetting that. No, no, no impossible.
We have to think of something else Beauty.
No, we will go over the Alibis together there, that maybe a
loop, they settled down to work and not wishing to trespass on
the inspectors Province. I've drifted off to find
Kingston, I finally tracked him down on the Terrace, it was
standing alone in the Moonlight smoking.
A cigar and looking rather like a Hollywood leading man.
He took my arm eagerly Yeah. Well, this is rather in the
nature of a confession. No, I didn't Rob him or
anything. I took down his will, I wrote it
out and he signed it. I don't quite see that.
Look, I yeah, I know, I can trust you.
I've heard about you from Janice, you see, I also did a
bit but not in substance, of course, in form, as he dictated
it, it ran something like this. To that unspeakable, boundary,
run, jailed crook, my brother born Henry Richard Peters
Whatever he may be calling himself.
Now, I leave all that I possess. I did not do this because I like
him. Well, it went on in the same
vein dad. I didn't think it was decent
thing like that and cause a lot of trouble.
I cleaned up the wording of it and very sensible but I don't
quite see where this is leading. What you see.
As soon as I saw Harris, you reminded me of someone tonight
at dinner. When you mentioned the funeral I
remember who it was Peters. Yes, the more I think about it,
the stronger, the likeness becomes Well, you see what I'm
driving at? I think so.
You think Peters and Harris brothers?
Now, I've said it doesn't sound. So exciting does it anyway?
I thought there might be, I've been trying to find you.
There's a call for you, dr. Kingston and mrs.
Bedford. Oh yes, I've been expecting
this. She's a week overdue and better
go. Would you say good night to your
father? For me, of course, goodnight.
Goodnight, I'll let myself out. Thank you for Energy drink.
Quite romantic. Isn't it out here in the
Moonlight? Knight centered stocks in the
garden. Nightingales in the ilex?
Albert. Yeah.
Do you know who did this beastly murder?
No. Not yet.
You think you'll find out. Yes, I'll find out.
Albert, will you hold my hand? It'll be a dreadful shock DeLeo
when he he has to know Papi. Well, they'd all Shield her
wouldn't they, after all, she has the most to lose.
Go back to town, Albert. Give it up now.
Don't find out. You're very lovely tonight.
Your hair, your dress at home. I'm sorry about this afternoon.
I'm sorry about what I said that woman.
I know, mr. Campion.
Oh, I beg your pardon forgive me Miss Janice, what is it?
Pepper. A young lady is called to see
you. So, I put her in the breakfast
drummer, I miss Effie Roland's and Miss Effie rowlandson.
I'm afraid I looked at her blankly, she was petite blond
and girlish with starry eyes and the teeth of a toothpaste
advertisement. Her costume was entirely black
save for a long white quillin, her hat and the general effect
lies somewhere between Hamlet and Aladdin.
Oh, I'm sure you would. Perhaps you've got the wrong,
man. I remember you at the funeral.
Oh yes. But Rowley Peters is funeral
every tethering. That's right.
I do remember now, I knew you would I just knew it and like
that sometimes I just know things I knew.
You'd help me. He trampled on me.
I beg your, pardon. I don't know when I've been so
mistaken in a man. He was hard.
I knew that all men are hard up me.
Not like him, but I ought not to talk about him like that.
He died when he's dead, if he is dead, is he who?
Oh, you're cautious Rowley? Peters, of course.
Hmm. I used to call him Rolie.
Polie didn't have made him cross.
What is wrong to love when he's dead?
If he is dead. Do you know my dear girl?
We went to his funeral, didn't we?
Look, I've come to consult you mr.
Campion I'm putting all my cards on the table.
I want to know if you're satisfied with that funeral
wasn't much to do with me, wasn't it?
Why was he them? I want a straight answer, there
was something funny about that funeral and you know it I'm
perfectly willing to help you suppose you tell me why you
think I can. Well, I'll trust you.
I was engaged to marry Rowley beaters, mr.
Campion, and then he went and died in a hole and Corner
nursing home and left. All his money to his brother.
And if you don't think that suspicious, I do because he left
it all to his brother. That's funny.
He died at all. If you ask me, I think he's done
the dirty on me. If he's hiding I'll find him if
it's the last thing I do. I came to you, because you're a
detective and I like your face Splendid.
But why come here? Why come to keep sake of all
places? Oh, good friend in the village
and he seen my photographs of Rowley.
A few days ago. He wrote me this friend.
There's a gentleman in the village very like a friend of
yours. He wrote come and take a look.
Well, when I got here, I found the man had come to see it.
Got himself killed this morning. So I came to you and you want to
identify him. Yes.
Why me why not go to the informative?
well, you see, I felt on you, you It was a strange night with
a great Moon sailing in an infinite Sky.
Lug peed being fetched out at such an hour, drove us through
Keepsake, its streets, empty and mysterious in the false light.
Miss Effie rowlandson shivered in the backseat with a blanket
round. Her knees.
I began to feel that she was going to be a great
responsibility. Well, here we are.
Miss rowlandson Are you sure you wouldn't prefer to save this
till morning? No, thank you.
Made up my mind to go through with it tonight.
To know. Come on.
No, need to be scared. Tell you sir, we could do with a
bit of help. We try the landlord of his flat
in London, no good. And I think it's through him is,
if you don't mind. All right, fine.
There's a light switch. Just inside the door now.
There's nothing to be afraid of all.
Go first. Don't worry, Miss.
He's the only one in here is on the table on the sheet over him.
So when you want me to draw it back, just you Now, oh my God.
Happened to him. You told me he'd be here, always
going to look at him. Perhaps it would be best if the
old lady went home. This by myself.
I'll drive it down. The situation had all the
unreality and acute. Discomfort of a nightmare, the
fields and walls, and hedges on. Either side of the road, were
ghostly in the false light. It was hot and there wasn't a
breath of wind. Anywhere Fe beside me in the
Lagonda was shivering so much. I thought she might pass out.
How about a shock? I steeled myself and wasn't
necessary. That was one thing.
Then I realized Rowley got out by himself that's sheet.
It was just thrown back like someone a good out of bed.
You didn't know Roni Peter's. Like I did was to Campion.
He was clever. He was clever on cruel and he's
about somewhere. He's hiding.
It was dead this afternoon. Miracles.
Don't happen much nowadays. He's probably dead still.
I'm not an imaginative. Girl.
Mr. Camp. Ian, but you read a funny.
Adventure. Suppose, he was to rise up
behind one of those bags by the side of the road and come out or
shut up. There's some perfectly
reasonable explanation. When you get back and stiff
drink and go to bed, you'll find it's all been cleared up by the
moon. You're hard.
I like hard men. I do really.
Well, we're here. Stay by the car.
Which door? Is it one more Club room
expected to be locked? The one around here?
Yes, it's that one. I said you're fearfully.
Like, do you know what I got? Oh, God.
What Bit O Champion? Hello.
Terribly late, isn't it? I'm just off.
Hey, Whip It. Where are you going?
Well bed, where else it is past midnight.
You know what you're doing here? Well, I heard you knock.
So I just lie here at the door in Keepsake.
Oh well, I'm staying here for a day or two, stir with it.
It's gone, he's disappeared. What should we do?
Ah, Miss Robinson, it's very late, gone, Rowley Peters body,
oh, awkward holds things up so, mmm.
Well, glad to have seen you Campion, I'll look you up
sometime, you'd better go. Miss Rawlings and it's terribly
late. Good night, mr.
Campion good night. Yes.
Good night. Oh, Your foot.
You seem to have left it in the door.
I can't look here. If you know anything about this
business, you better tell me. What do you know about Peters?
Nothing. I'm just staying here.
Why I've heard the talk of curse because it always, you had one
of those letters. Have you heard any more about
the mole? Well, yes, as a matter of fact,
I have I've got it somewhere, but I say it's terribly awkward,
you losing the body, have you looked in the river?
The river. Do you know anything?
Um, do you mind camping? You're creasing my dressing up.
What is the obvious place? Isn't it now look, it's
fearfully late way. Past my bedtime.
I'll look you up tomorrow if I may I don't mean to be rude but
what's that? Well good night can be done.
See you tomorrow. Good luck with the body.
As I drove back to the police station, I tried to reconcile
whip its appearance with the whole mysterious business.
And why the river, why should he think the body would turn up
there? I covered the half-mile in a
little under a minute and pull that outside at the same moment
that another car arrived from the opposite direction.
As I climbed out, I recognized Leo's.
Respectable Hummer, religion can be an extraordinary business to
see, tell me over the phone. I don't like Monkey Business for
the corpse. Not a bit like my district.
Indecent, if you see anything to report, come around and looks
are here, yeah. All these windows were bolted on
the inside. I checked around at about 11:00
or the body was here, then I was thinking about bad, when mr.
Camping arrived with a young lady and mr.
Luck. Oh, he's inside sir drinking
tea. Yes, it would be, well, that's
when we made the discovery set, the key Leve opposition, no sir.
Purely. I've always found.
When you're efficient officer but you're asking me to believe
a fairy story. See if the body didn't go
through the windows, it must have gone through the door and
if you had the only excuse me said Mr. Logan made we made a
discovery. See all the buildings in this
yard were put up by a local building and I'll live.
They've all got the same lock, I see any Keys missing?
Well, no, but well we've had the Builder in doing a bit of work
recently. Been a lot of toing and froing.
Once again, I'm gonna be assured and something else.
We found look over here. Now, this fence was perfect.
This afternoon. These boards have been kicked
out tonight. Surely this was where he was
brought through look. So, so have you looked in the
lane behind? Ya, me and mr.
Li got a good look, round sir, there's nothing the grounds too
hard for the to be any marks. He was a heavy fella, seems very
likely. It was done with a car or a
cart. Yeah, excuse me.
Sir, I think the best thing is if we wait till morning and
question, all those as live nearby in the end, we left it at
that Leo, drove back to high waters and lug followed in the
Lagonda pussy. Went to bed and I walked off
down the lane at the back of the shed with the moon, already
sinking and faint, streaks of light, in the East, it was
colder. I was in the mood to walk home.
The lane went on for some distance between High Hedges and
nice warmth it on my mind on the business after a while.
I passed through into a field that rose up to form a
considerable, he'll black against the sky, it was very
dark at the bottom of the hill. And as I plotted on Lost, in
thought there came down to me suddenly I sounded once so human
and so terrifying. I felt the hair on my scalp rise
for moment. I Stood Still pray to all the
irrational fears childhood then I set off up the hill at the
Double suddenly, as I reach the brow, I saw something
silhouetted against the gray, sky, a tripod with something on
it that I'd first took to be a machine gun.
It was a telescope, a very good day too.
Yes. Good day habit.
I have the advantage of you sir. You are mr.
Campion and your mr. Hey ho hahaha it'll do.
It'll do we met at a funeral? This is a most unexpected
pleasure. I was hoping for an interview.
I didn't expect to find you wandering about in the Dorn.
Most young men, nowadays prefer to spend the best part of the
day in bed, your have only yourself waiting to see the dawn
That and other things I take it you are investigating the death
of that unfortunate fellow Harris to where you need to be
coy mr. Campion I can be very useful to
you. Yeah.
That's very reasonable Sam. I will undertake to give you
certain information information that it would take you a long
time to collect alone and which should lead you to a very
successful conclusion of the case, your professional
reputation will be enhanced and And I shall of course take now
the Kudos. Now the term curse was relation
of yours. I suppose my nephew not a very
beautiful one, he was quite wealthy.
You see and well not very generous nephew well that
explains the mystery of the cough but and Peter's the
gentleman whose funeral you attended the was he and Sophia I
have several never uses to Campion.
Now, I hate to press the vine but shall we say 500 guineas for
a complete and private explanation of the whole Affair?
Or of course, we might split it up into Lots as it were, if you
do know anything, it's your duty to go to the police.
Dear me, is this your last word? I'm afraid sir?
Well, Ed, I gave you the chance. You can't deny that.
Well, if that's all my day young man, don't be Hasty.
I can help you. Why should we quarrel?
If you knew anything of importance, should hardly dare,
talk about it. You don't understand.
My position is simple, safe and simple.
I have an asset that I intend to realize.
There are two likely purchases you and another party.
I shall simply dispose of the goods to the highest bidder.
Fine. Well, I love a half a crown, let
me know if I'm up with late. You've a lot to Mr. Campion
suppose we meet here tomorrow morning, 7:00.
If I can't get satisfaction in other quarters.
Well, I made Bates my price a little.
What do you say, perhaps here then 7?
Good morning, mr. Campion, and I went off down the
hill at the time. I thought I was quite justified
in letting him stew for 24 hours at the time.
I didn't know the kind of person I was up against whenever I map
together over pleased with myself.
I remember that little chat on the early morning Hillside as I
came here early up the drive at high waters, it was fooled on
the air was magnificent, the sky a translucent blue and the birds
were roaring at one another. In undisturbed abandoned, I had
a tepid bath and slept for a couple of hours but I was
waiting for Leo when he appeared around 8:00, we went for a
stroll, round the garden before breakfast, and I put my request
in had a fellow what? Yes, good idea.
Irene Beauty. Strawberry name.
Hey ho any reason about General suspicion he tried to sell me
information. In fact, he tried to sell me the
solution to the whole business. What bring it in?
Bring it in to me. Did you know, time for
pussyfooting my boy. We want to go down to the
station and tell me what he stands.
I don't think I would say leave him loose and see what he leads
us to. Well, I don't know which as you
like, prepare the most straightforward method myself.
Oh, well, let's go in. I'll get on diffusion as it
happened. Of course, he was perfectly
right? But none of us knew that then I
breakfasted alone and Janet drifted in tossed.
Me a glance of faint contempt and drifted out, without
speaking to bright spots of color, burning on her cheeks.
I decided for one of anything better to do to drive over to
Halt night to see Poppy. I found her in the lounge, it
was early and so we were alone. She seemed delighted to see me
and as usual insisted on getting me a drink at once.
It's a bit early. Oh Albert.
Don't be a fuddy-duddy here. More rocks than Scott.
How's that? Thanks. you have any visitors
yesterday morning someone who popped in and then left Well,
yes, I suppose I did. I'm afraid I haven't told you
about it. It's rather awkward people down
here. A terrible snobs.
I didn't quite follow. It was.
Hey, Ho. He's an awful.
Little Bounder, but he's got to live like anyone else?
Hey, who is a friend of yours? Oh no.
Not a friend. But he came to me for help
yesterday morning. He wanted to borrow money.
Oh no. I mean, I might have lent him a
pound or two but you wouldn't they borrowed money?
You see, he came to me and told me the whole story Harris, was
his nephew apparently, and they've been a lot of
jiggery-pokery going on this little tick, Harris are done.
Hey, who out of all his money? When I mean, I knew what Harris
was like, so I could quite believe him.
I let him into her as his room, what?
Oh, Jesus was in there at the time.
Hey, I wanted to see him privately.
There was an awful Rao and Harry sent him away the flea in his
ear. I never told Leo.
And that was on the morning that Harris was killed.
Well, yes, of course yesterday. Well how do you know?
Hey, ho wasn't here when the urn toppled off so conveniently, it
wasn't convenient hour but my God look at the mess.
It certainly wasn't happy. He wasn't here, he left a long
time before that. I know what goes on in my own
house. I hope I know it's the fashion
around here, to think I'm a dear silly old fool, but I'm not
completely demented. Hey, let me freshen up your
glass. Thanks.
And so, why was he who here yesterday?
Well, it's difficult to explain. He came to offer me his help as
a man of the world. Thanks.
I think he really came to scrounge a drink.
I looked down at the glass in my hand and 12:00 the little blocks
of ice round and round in the pale Amber liquid.
It was then that I had the whole case under my nose.
Unfortunately I am this or half of it.
I hadn't had time to consider this for very long.
I heard the sound of a car on the gravel outside and thinking
it might be Leo, Poppy and I strolled out to meet him but it
was luck in the Lagonda and as I hurried up, I saw that his Great
Moon of a face. Betrayed unusual excitement up
in the general wants. You down at the station.
Got something for you. They found the body.
Oh, got your second side. Outfit working again, I see.
Morning ma'am. I'm sorry Papi.
Leah's waiting for me down at the police station.
I'll send him along with the excitement's over do do, he's a
pet shop. Albert, one of the best.
Tell him I'm silly. I'm sorry.
All right. Well, was it in the river?
The river calm as you, please blow in a fishing boat.
Picked it up. But funny, place, we come to
verse, they bang a chap on the edge.
Then they sling him in the river.
Some persons are never satisfied, really, but pry, the
river, it's bound to be found sooner or later.
It's disgraceful my own very good.
It shocked me Campion there was no poison areas wanted Mischief.
Do you think Sam? What do you mean?
I think there should be a post-mortem what someone good
but someone discreet as well, not Kingston may have and say
anyone else. Locally do whoa, yeah, it'll
Professor phangan. He did some Resort for us some
time ago. But you can see for yourself the
cause of death. Here, are we justified in having
a post-mortem? It's always justified in the
case of a violent death. Yeah.
When you saw the body yesterday, did you notice anything that?
Put such an idea into your head? Now I didn't.
But this makes all the difference.
Water has a peculiar property, doesn't it?
Well, you mean it washes things. As I walked out of the police
station, I was thinking of whip it whip it and the anonymous
letters, whip it and Fe rowlandson Whip-It and his
extraordinary guess about the river if it was a guess I
decided to look for Whip It. He wasn't at his hotel, and in
the end, I had to go back to high waters unsatisfied after
lunch. I decided to take a turn about
the garden to try to get a few things straight.
It was one of those Vivid summer days that are hot without being
uncomfortable. As I walk down the grass path
between the lavender Hedges, I heard the sound of voices and
something familiar about one of them, caught my attention to
deck. Chairs are placed side by side
on the Roselawn with their backs to me and I heard Janet laughs
The sound of my approach. Her companion.
Rose neat and cool in his white familes experienced an odd.
Sensation half relief and half exasperation Whip-It campea.
Found you at last I've been searching for you all over the
place. My dear fellow.
Oh yes. Well he ran are round about.
I've been busy. Hello, Janet.
Now this is a nice friend of yours.
Albert do sit down, there's a deck chair over there.
Complicated things. It's been found to know in the
river. Yes.
I heard in the village. You've got a lot to explain.
Yes. Yes.
I know. Well that's why I'll be looking
for you. There's this rowlandson for one
thing and this came this morning.
Have you had one Although the Skinner is at hand, his, he's in
the earth, peace and hope are in his warm heart.
He folded his hand upon his belly.
Faith is his that can remove the mountain or his little Hill.
Same postmark is the rest funny isn't it?
Do you make anything of it? No, he folded his hands upon his
belly who's the he? Well I took it to be the mole
his little Hill you know I suppose you both know what
you're talking about. I think I'd better go now now
that I found Campion and clear all this up.
You've been most kind of put up with me mr.
Sweden my pleasure. Mr. Whip it good.
Bye. I'll walk with you to the game.
You'll have to explain. What are you doing in this
business in the first place? Who's that?
Girl, Fe, he's got a strong personality Campion.
I met her at pigs funeral and she sort of well, collected me
when she asked me to drive her down here yesterday.
Well, what about the letters? You're not supposed to take
anything seriously, are you Anonymous letters, one yet?
I wonder who's writing them. It's very disturbing Campion.
I'll be at the feathers. Look me up when you can spare
the time and we'll go into it. Ah, I don't want to interfere
Alberto, mr. Whip-It told me a bit about
every rowlandson. He did well thank goodness for
that. I don't think you should let her
annoy him. What?
It's bad enough to bring her down here in the first place.
Without letting her get her claws into other people.
I hate to have to talk to you like this Albert but really you
know it is rather disgusting of you before I could stop her.
She turned on her heel and stroked back into the house.
I followed her, of course, but she shut herself in her bedroom.
And once more, I was given furiously to think I went into
the library, a large old-fashioned room.
Cool. And with the aromatic smell of
paper, I sat down a big leather armchair to think things out for
my lack of sleep, was too much for me.
I dozed off. I was awoken by.
What what what is it pepper? Says the telephone sir.
Miss poppy Baloo ring from halt night, Sir.
Perhaps you'd like to take it in here sir.
Thank you Pepe yet. Puppy.
Got an awful confession to make. Oh yeah, I'm afraid you're going
to think I'm stupid. It seems hey ho did come back
that morning. The morning Harris was killed
one of the girls saw him. It was a long time after his
route with Harris. I thought he'd gone the girl
knew I'd given him permission earlier.
So she thought it would you have to tell you why?
I don't think we can arrest him that, you know, Bremen question.
Him wanted to do that all along. We can't hold him but you must
hold him. That's the point.
We're not a tittle of solid evidence please.
The something else from Papa Georges.
Wonderful little black heart. I know but monstrous at least
keep him for 24 hours. What's on your mind?
My boy sound, apprehensive anything in the wind?
I don't know. Look, you think about the
question of a rest? I'll go down to his lodgings
with pussy and pick him up. There's a constable on the
place, isn't there? It's all under control sir.
He's been in all day. Good, good, that's his room
where the light is, you can see him if you look where oh, there
he is inspector that shadow on the curtains, he hasn't moved
for an hour. I'm sorry.
Constable what? Sir?
I'm afraid you're going to be dealing with dog licenses for
quite a long time to come. It was a coat and bolster over a
chair. Of course, pusey stood looking
at it. When we got into the stuffy
little attic bedroom, and he kept his temper, remarkably.
Well, from the constables evidence, hey, ho could have had
an hour start at the most pussy. Mobilized, his small force with
speed and efficiency. He reported on his progress to
Leo at the police station around about 11 o'clock by bus, and he
hasn't got a car. If you went on foot by any of
the main roads, he moves a deal faster than any ordinary animal
can understand it. Unless he took to the field suit
up in it. Early voting extraordinary
thing, I took a dislike to the fellow.
The first time I saw him must have been hiding in whole night
all the time. Well, get him, sir.
The whole village is on the lookout and of us here.
Rest tonight, you go back to your bed sir.
You can leave them to us. You've searched the hilltop
every inch is telescopes up there, but nothing else besides
he couldn't get up there without being seen, unless he was a
mole. But travel underground, you see,
sir Leo drove me back to high waters and I climbed into bed
for the first time in 48 hours. I was in Dreamland as the books,
say the minute, my little golden head touched the pillow, I only
seem to have been asleep for about a quarter of an hour when
his drill bit, mr. Elmo, golf stroke wake up, mr.
Albert was 6:00, you told me to wake her.
Oh, God. Now, why are you bothered?
I always running away from a pack of browsers.
All set to jogging for murder, but he's not gonna pass up a
little. And with you.
Oh, dear me. No, have you rung?
Inspector pussy. Yeah, not a sign searching all
night. He said, Bob whisker.
Oh dear. I'll come with you.
If you like nothing like a long country will before the Jews of
the grass goes the feet. I sent him back to bed dressed
and went out. It was a fine clear morning with
a promise of great heat in the day to come.
The sky was opal. The ground was soft, and it was
a pleasant morning for walking but I found my feet lagging and
I entered the Hill Meadow with the deepest foreboding When I
reach the summit, I felt relieved.
I disturb no more than a brace of locks and the hilltop was
bear but for, hey hose old, brass telescope mounted on its
tripod. I wipe the Dew from the lenses
with my handkerchief The View was stupendous, hope nights was
Rose Red and gracious in the grace Holdings but River mouth
sparkled in the morning sun and around it.
Lay the pocket-handkerchief fields the corn high and green.
The pasture browned, a little in the hot weather.
I stood there for a long time looking at the scene.
So peaceful, so quiet and so Charming, there was nothing out
of place. Nothing frightening, or
remarkable. And then, I saw it.
About half a mile away in the midst of a field waist-high in
green corn, there was a dilapidated scarecrow, a
grotesque unnatural creature setup to terrify, the not quite
so clever Rooks, but the Rooks were swarming upon it.
Mr. Hayhoe had been found It looks that way.
One thrust strong and deep over the collar bone, and into the
jugular gun here, you think roads just over there and murder
would have had too far to carry him.
It might have been done here. There's enough blood.
What was he doing in the middle of a field with a murderer.
Anyway, a bit of Private Business.
I'd like an opinion on the wound better find and I'll be along
later this morning to see the the other body and we can get
Kingston to have a look in the meantime.
Are we going to leave him up here?
Whoa we should at least until firing it arrives but we can't
lead a fellow hitched up out in the sun like this.
It isn't decent. Pusey and I took hey hose body
off the piece of broken paling and laid it down.
Among the green Whispering corn, the police then brought it on a
tumbrel to the little motor area behind the station Leo.
And I stood alone in the mortuary shared between the two
white covered things that had come to upset.
So violently the time-honored piece of keepsake Sinai.
This it had definite information, you see talked
about it but who whodunit camp. Don't you see my boy?
A terrible thing is happening. It's the strangers were being
killed off the field narrowing down to our own people.
God, what's to be done now? Um, I've got dr.
Kingston outside, sir, very anxious to help.
Well, better, have you been? And I said, the Constable down
effects. Miss Robinson to have a look at.
Well, the other gentleman should be back any time.
Good, good, right? Well, if you like to go and duck
Kingston, it's this one here. Yeah it looks like it was done
with something their own sharp dagger trophy, perhaps something
like like you know the ones on the wall of the billiard room
would halt nights that kind of shape.
There's nothing to worry about Miss tourism.
No, more nasty shocks. Are you ready?
Yes. Yes, he says Riley Peters.
Are you sure? Oh, yes.
I wasn't in love with him, but I'm sorry, he's dead.
Come on, guys. Let's go back to the station.
Have a cup of tea better. Get a statement down.
We got engaged or newly engaged and then.
Oh mr. Campion, you know the rest?
Yes. Can I go now like to be by
myself for a while? Yes, of course.
My dear lives outside. He'll drive you home.
I'm so it's really Peter's. We've got in there.
I'm not sure anymore. I thought I recognized the
corpse. I thought it was Peters but now
you can't really identify a man after 25 years and the two
brothers are obviously aligned. Does it matter?
They're both dead. Whereas the murderer, on the
other hand, still roaming around somewhere.
Good morning, inspector. Ha Professor Langdon A
remarkable amount of body is here. from sure, Leo what you
were suggesting It's diabolical that diabolical thing when you
think I'm right? It's not so fast.
When do you give an opinion without a careful?
Autopsy, of course but you may be right.
I wouldn't be at all surprised, we know before long.
Have they sent round to me? I'll let you know for certain
Nina dear to it, I thought, but I think I did Express an
opinion. Very tentative one.
You understand that, he met his death sometime before he had
that crack on his head, poison chloral.
Hydrate, most likely. The bang on the hit was in the
nature of a blight. You've got a clever man working
against him is to Campion. No, he said, look at the other
part of it. For two days thing's hung fire
and pussy and I collected, but useful scraps of information.
We could Janet developed a strained expression.
Poppy took to her bed and even whip.
It was more solicitous than I had supposed possible.
I packed him off to talk to Janet who was kind enough to put
up with him. Kingston, of course, was very
much in the foreground and I even found them useful.
He was an inveterate gossip with a Cavalier, regard for the laws
of libel. Leo was perhaps the worst
affected of us. All he sat in his gun room,
staring mournfully at his magnificent, collection of
sporting trophies, a mass of papers laid disregarded on his
desk. The inquest have been adjourned
to give us some breathing space, for that means we've got to get
results. Every morning, I wake up
wondering what the day's going to bring forth.
We've got a killer at large in the very God knows where you
going to strike next. What do we got?
Nothing hardly. Oh, come on.
It's not as bad as all that. Kingston's put me on Peters and
solicitors Peter's, Peter. We got to Peter's, we don't
know, which is which, the first Peters, the one who died in
Kingston's nursing home. Apparently, he was insured with
mutual ordered life Endowment for 20,000 pounds, so it all
went to Harris. Yes, thanks interesting.
But what does it mean? Are you can be and I've known
you since you were a child. And I know when there's
something on your mind, if you know anything, you must tell me,
I think I could bear anything rather than this uncertainty
only hell, I'm not sure, we doesn't matter, I must know.
I know how the first murder was done and I think I know who did
it, but I'm not sure at this stage proof is impossible, give
me another day or two, but I'd rather you told me now we can't
do anything without evidence 48 Hours.
Very well. There is something though.
Can you get a home office order for the exhumation of RI Peters
varied over at tethering? Last January?
Well, I could try but my dear fellow.
No identification after all this time.
I've got an idea about that when it's important, I don't know, I
think so. Well, I'll see what I can do.
Can I use the phone? Very cool.
Anyone interested in dr. Kingston been making a bit of a
nuisance of himself lately but too much like a Schoolboy he
should enjoy this. Then I'm going to ask him to
show me around his graveyard. No, no really.
I'm dad of something different to do.
It's been a quiet day. You said you were interested in
the soil? That's right.
Well, yes. I think there might be some kind
of preservative about a year ago.
A Gravedigger dragged me out to see him as odd thing.
He opened up a grave to put in a relation of dead woman and the
coffin lid have come off. She'd been in the ground throw
three years but the body was almost perfect.
How did you guess car parsley? Are you often find in growing in
soil like that. Wait a minute, don't think your
next formation? Perhaps I say, look at all the
Jolly exciting being present and exploration nothing's fixed.
So better keep quiet about it. Gossip could be fatal.
Question of identification. I suppose What A Stroke of Luck.
He's buried here in 99 cemeteries out of 100.
Yes, the Purdue keep quiet about it.
They haven't say yes, of course. Besides, I don't see a soul at
all. The following day, the third
since he had been found, I woke up with a sensation of
apprehension, a premonition that things were going to move.
Although if I'd known in what direction, I didn't think I'd
have got out of bed. It began with Professor
ferryman's report. He came over to make it verbally
while I was at the station with Busey it was chloral hydrate.
So he was poisoned. Well, it's difficult to decide
how much the man had taken before his death.
There's no way of knowing you see where they were in the stone
Crush down on his head. He was already dead or just
drugged, what would the chloral hydrate have done?
Exactly made him sleepy if you came on a man suffering from a
small dose of the poison, you'd think he was He's in a deep
natural sleep, what about? Hey, ho was no funny business,
they're very brutal one. Quick thrust.
Yes it was. Interesting wound, remarkable
lucky or delivered by someone who was no fool.
Gordon. Just over the collarbone and
went straight down into the neck.
He died at. Once have a knife, I can draw it
for you or at least the blade know what scene you see.
I left them together and went off to find with it.
Neither he nor every role in summer the feathers when I
arrived but presently he came up alone in his baby Austin.
I've been house hunting is a little Villa down the road that
interests me. I like empty houses, don't you?
Whenever I'm in a district, I look at empty houses, we must
look together. Sometime yes.
Well I really haven't got time at the moment.
Look, I wanted to ask you, did you ever talk to?
Hey ho oh yes, yes. I had several conversations with
him. Not a nice fellow tried to
borrow money. Likely, what else did you talk
about natural history? I think mostly flora and fauna.
Some are born. Blind some achieve blindness,
some have blindness thrust upon them.
Moles coming to the Category it, don't they?
I went back to high waters there.
The thing I had not foreseen the thing for which I shall never
forgive myself. Awaited me lug had gone.
There may be men servants who go off without a moment's notice,
but lugs not one of them. We searched and searched but
there was no sign of him. He disappeared as mysteriously
as he had done wandered into the fields and vanished in precisely
the same way. I didn't know what to do in the
end. I ranked Kingston came over
right away, there's obviously no time to lose.
So, what's your idea that chat with is?
I've been keeping an eye on him. Oh, I know old school friend and
all that, but you don't really know him, do you and someone
must be behind all this. Well, go on.
There's a house and empty, Villa, all by itself.
At the end of a partly made up road with, it's been down there
once or twice, poking around. I think he actually got the key
from the ages. Didn't it occur to you that hey
ho probably wasn't killed in that open field.
It's a lonely little place, just right for a spot of bother.
I think we should take a look. Well, I suppose anything's
better than hanging around here. All right, come on, we better
take your car, it's faster. Straight down the hill and left.
All right, pull over. No time.
You haven't been sleeping pull in there.
I got a hit from the back. Pull in, or I won't be
responsible. Yeah, I have a drop of this.
All right, that is better. I think I have another just what
I needed. Can, I hang onto the flask for a
while. Of course.
Are you all right? Yes.
I think. So the matter feeling tired
Brenda. Yeah, I haven't eaten some time.
Perhaps. I better drive.
Thanks. Drugs again.
I was aware of him pulling up and through my half-closed eyes.
I saw a dilapidated Little Villa, it's white.
Stucco streaked with many reins at the side of the house.
That was a garage with a badly made Drive, leading up to it.
I was aware of Kingston unlocking, the door of the
garage, and then I was down at the bottom of the car, my eyes
closed. And my breath coming at regular
intervals. Wow, there you are.
My get on this to campion's sleep sound me wipe the wheel,
Press Your Hands onto it carbon monoxide, easy death that's why
suicides choose it. So often so simple.
I just leave you in the car. Start the engine and close the
doors. The neurotic mr.
Campion has done the inexplicable once again suicide.
Distinguished London criminologist.
I was Clever for you too. Damn clever by half that
business. With the hip flask was poor
start. I smelled the chloral as I
raised it to my lips. I simply didn't drink, but I
hadn't realized the fellows strength when we came to grips,
that was muscle there and wait to back it up.
Besides, he was demented, he fought like a fiend.
I no longer had any doubts about the identity of the hand that
put the knife into, hey, hose neck, his great shoulders,
hunched, against the light he left on me and we fell to the
ground. I nearly escaped him once had
nearly reached the doors when something like a vise sees me
around the throat. I was lifted bodily in my head
crashed down onto the concrete floor is like going down very
suddenly in a lift it went on and on and at the end there was
Darkness I came up slowly and little jerks I was aware that my
arms were moving up and down in a slow rhythmic movement I
couldn't control and then I was gasping fighting for breath.
The Voice came to me like a dream and I saw through the fog,
a ridiculous small boy, with ink smeared all over his face.
Looking down at my bed in the sicker, then the ink disappeared
but I still saw the same face. What happened?
What are you looking at? Easy log for God's sake.
We've got to get long. I know here.
Let me help you up. Dangerous is me, I like
Kingston, get away before I got you out.
I didn't want to have you on my hands.
He took your car, come on. We've got to get to him before,
it's too late. A fellow came by on a bicycle.
A moment ago. I've sent him off to tell the
others. He's going to send the whole
crowd up to the nursing home. I thought that was best.
I've got my car in the bed, around the back.
Let's go to tethering. Straight away shall we?
How do you feel now Ruff? I'm going to terrible.
Fishermen luck hoist up on a scarecrow stake as high as
Nelson's column doesn't this thing go any faster.
Locked. It's like a Barracks.
Where Do We Begin upstairs? Quick.
Five doors on the landing were open.
So we concentrated on the one that wasn't it was unlocked but
someone held it on the other side we could hear him snarling
and panting as he fought with it, now wait be careful through
the open door. I could see a bed and on it was
a large familiar form. The face was uncovered and as
far as I could see the color was natural, but as I stared at it,
I saw the thing that sent the blood racing to my face and turn
my body, cold lock his hair. It's been dyed, red, what color
was Peters. And so I saw Truth.
The body of one fat man is much like the body of another when
the hair is dyed and the features obliterated Kingston
was going to have a body of his exclamation after all champion.
It's all right with it. You can come in now.
Oh. I think I heard a car pull up
outside. It took three policemen to get
Kingston into the car. And when he came up before the
magistrate, there was an unprecedented scene in court at
the assizes, the council pleaded, Insanity defense, which
failed and I think justifiably but that was later.
My own concern at the time, was lug for a long time.
It was touch and go. It was chloral hydrate.
Again, Kingston didn't want any wound showing on his exhibition
corpse. What the finishing process was
going to be, I can only guess. I don't like to think of it even
now. Lug told us his story, as soon
as we got him round, it was elementary.
He just rang me up, especially make sure you was out first.
What did he say? Give me a message.
It was supposed to be from you. Work in town or something, said
you wanted to see me at his place first and he picked her
up, right? Well, that's why no one saw a
car if he was Kingston's car. No one would notice.
It's too well-known. Well anyway, he drove me to his
place and he told me to wait for a while.
Got me a beer. I thought he was a real
gentleman and to What Kosar drunky.
How was I to know you was leading this bloke out the
guard, maybe a coming over the and every five minutes, if you
stuff him full of this XU Mason thinking he'd go for.
You are supposed never thought of me.
Isn't that you will blow over? Let's be thankful.
You're alive to tell the tale. Oh, I am.
But what about this? Orange Barney, I'll go shave me
at now. What me London friends going to
say already in the country who just very lightly little place
called wormwood was it or, or maybe Dartmoor or break?
Austin, during the next 24 hours, you worked incessantly.
And at the end of it, the case against Kingston was complete.
It was on the evening of the day on which the exhumation had
taken place that Leo, Janet, and I went down to Halt nights.
Leo was still seething bricks. Yellow Brick wrapped in a
blanket and nailed in a coffin. Even now, I don't see how he did
it alone. He wasn't alone.
He had Peters to help your terribly confusing.
How many brothers were there? None only the one inimitable
Pig, but why go to all that trouble of pretending he died
in? Insurance 20,000 pounds.
My puppet. Ian Kingston were going to do a
deal. Tie up with a medical man and
let Mutual ordered Life In Darwin's.
Solve your money problems being invented, the brother and they
killed him off together. Yellow Bricks, neat, and very.
So, why didn't it work? Because Pig was a crook.
Basically, he wouldn't pay up once the deed had been done Pig.
Had Kingston by the short and curlies I think he kept his dr.
Powell on a string from Hissing, promising, and then laughing at
him. He didn't reckon with the sort
of man. He was dealing with mad.
Well, not quite and and what about hey, who Wicked Uncle
finds Wicked. Nephew in Clover and wants to
browse to another danger for Kingston murder.
Think we had him to dinner. Terrible fellow.
Hey ho, black building was burned out of getting the truth
either. Hey, how was certainly selling
discretion, but I don't think he even guessed Kingston killed
Pig. He made an appointment with
Kingston to talk it over and I chose the empty house.
Kingston killed him there and later on carry him to the
cornfield where we found. He deceived us all very well.
I never dreamed that religious she seemed decent enough fella.
Yes he was amazing. My rival must have shaken him up
but he trotted out that brother story immediately and made it
sound convincing. The only mistake he made was in
dumping the body in the river. When I said I was going to
examine it, he acted on impulse, he saw his way and went straight
for it every time you all know. Opera walked into that last
trap. You set for you, I have to.
We had no proof either got clean away with the first two efforts,
all the same. I don't think I'd have been so
foolhardy. If it hadn't been for lug all
the same, you'd have looks pretty green.
It hadn't been for Gilbert, Gilman with it.
Oh, we had a word or two on the phone before.
Kingston, pick me up, we guess that if Kingston was going to
try anything, he'd take me to that empty house but still I
shouldn't have been so brave without him and you know about
Gilbert. How much do you know?
Tell me. Leah was on the point of
demanding an explanation when we pulled up at the nights.
We found Poppy pusey and whippet waiting for us in the lounge.
And then we were all sitting around with the Ice Cube's,
clinking, in our Tall Glasses. Poppy is suddenly turned on me.
Albert, I do want to be unkind you and I do think you're very
clever but how could dr. Kingston have killed Harry saw
Peters, or whatever his name was when he was in this room playing
poker with Leo? Yes, yes.
That's right. Quite forgot just cashing in his
Queen Park. When And down came the other
day. You said yourself, it couldn't
have been an accident. It occurred to me.
So, to, how was going to mention it?
Well, I think the time has come for me to do my parlor trick.
Well, a puppy when dr. Kingston called that morning,
you gave him a drink, didn't you?
Of course. What was it?
Oh, scotch on the rocks. Highball, something like that
with ice. Oh yes.
It was a blazing day. And do you know where he was all
morning? Well, no, not really.
Did he go upstairs? Yes, he went to have a look at
one of the girls. She had a touch of flu.
I was he up there long? Yes, he was quite a while.
Now, I come to think of it, but I don't see this was a long time
before that Roz fell on, you know, Harris, while he was
upstairs. Kingston went in to see Harris
Alias pig, pig had a shocking hangover and he asked Kingston
for something for it. Kingston had some chloral in his
bag. It's a reputable narcotic used
in small quantities. He gave pick a tidy.
Do some pigs, staggered out and settled down in the deck chair.
Kingston was just going to let Pig died of the claw.
But that was risking, he noticed the position of the deck chair
and the bars right above it, he sipped his drink and he saw his
charm. My dear fellow I keep telling
you he was with me, it was the drink that did it.
He had two or three solid cubes of ice in his glass.
He slept upstairs, the rest was easy.
He took the urn out of the socket that kept it in place and
balanced it on its Peg. Half over the ledge, he propped
it up on the ice cubes and went down and played pooka.
Will God amazing. Though there was a risk that
someone would notice but well it was small no one did.
He just had to wait until the ice melted and the urn fell.
Oh it's horrible powerful smart. If I might ask you sir how did
you come to think of that the moss on the ledge was damp?
When I first arrived it didn't dawn on me at first but when I
had a drink here the other day and I saw the eyes it just
slotted into play. Wonderful.
I was after the same fellow of course but The Alibi put me out.
Do you and mr. Rubadoux.
Very beautiful view here of course.
But where do you fit into this extraordinary story?
What you doing here? Well his little hands are sore
and his snout bleed. It hey, this is Gilbert Whip-It
jr. Son of Q Gilbert Whip-It,
chairman of the mutual ordered life in domed company.
Sometimes called the M 0 0, L E mole.
You always were a lazy little beast whip it.
I prefer writing to action the. Well, I'm sorry to have dragged
you into all this but we had nothing to go on except to sort
of uneasy suspicion. I couldn't approach it a wreck
because well there was nothing direct about it.
Like and I appreciated your style.
It seemed the best way to ensure your interest whenever I thought
you might be flagging. I wrote again.
And you just follow the mole. When log and I set off for
London, the next day poppy who had come to high waters for
lunch, stood, with Leo and wave, goodbye to his from the lon, the
sky was dappled blue and white, the Birds Sang, and the air
smelled of hey, Janet with Whip-It in tow.
Came running out to us. Just before we started off, her
eyes were dancing, and she looked a door.
Congratulate to tell but we're engaged.
Isn't it wonderful what? Oh yes, congratulations.
I hope you'll be very happy. I'm indebted to you, Campion.
We drove for some time in silence.
I was thoughtful and lug who's as bald as an egg seem
depressed, as we reach the main road.
He nudged me. Cool.
What a performance? Who's that bloke?
Whipping come down to a place. We miss Chevy rowlandson and go
off the Miss Janet persuade, even that took a bit of doing
log. How would you like to walk home?
The case of the late Pig by Marjorie ellingham was
dramatized for radio by Gregory Evans.
The cast Albert. Campion James, Snell, lug
several shapes flip it Hayden. Would Janet died in a bishop Leo
Gerard green. Kingston David McAllister Papi.
Judy Franklin Fe Amanda Marie inspector pusey.
Christopher Scott hey ho Philip manickam Parson and pepper
Michael Drew. Farringdon Paul Nicholson and
the police Constable Nicholas Orchid.
The program was directed in Bristol by Brian Miller.
Now, there's a bit of time in hand before 10:00 the weather
forecast and the news. So let's have a look at the
remainder of some of our programs this evening.
Offering a drink is a traditional sign of hospitality
and welcome. And yet it's thought that
three-quarters of a million people in Britain.
Have a serious drinking problem treatment for that problem.
Can vary widely some drinkers, for example, want to abstain,
completely. While others prefer to learn to
drink at a safe level. Tonight at 10:15 Peter Evans
considered some of the treatments available as well as
the reasons for their wide variation of AIMS in Breaking
the bottle. Loneliness, like, alcoholism is
on the increase paradoxically. When in this age of
communication, it's becoming increasingly difficult to be
alone later. This evening, in a word in
edgeways loneliness, is the subject for discussion.
His brand redhead, there used to be a particularly soppy song.
Which ask the question? Are, you lonely tonight?
It was really a come on for the last walls, but it is a real
question loneliness, or so they say is a growing malady and
tonight. Word in edgeways.
I want to ask David, Benedictus Jean, McFarland and Frank,
right? If they believe that loneliness
is widespread and if so, why what is this unwanted Solitude?
Well that's a word in edgeways tonight at 11:15.
And that's followed by another episode of raid Gosling's on the
train to New Zealand. Speaking of trains now from our
motoring, and travel unit is emoting information with
temperatures. Dropping rapidly driving
conditions are becoming treacherous and most areas
tonight in South Wales. There's no improvement.
So far, as the roads concerned, all roads are virtually
impossible, including the M4 Motorway, and they 48 the main
London, fishguard Road, a similar situation applies in the
gwent area where the roads are blocked by deep snow.
Drivers heading for the West country, will find the M4.
Motorway closed in both directions.
From Junction. 17 is Chippenham in Wilshire to Newport and went
and that includes the Seven Bridge.
It's expected that the M4 will remain closed all day tomorrow,
drivers making for Devon and Cornwall will find the a 303 and
8:30 possible care to Exeter. But after that the a 30 is Bach
to bodmin the alternative route is the a 38 via pin with
although conditions are bad with a road reduced to single
alternative lanes and places. Drivers using the A40 to enter
Wales, will also find conditions hard going and please don't
advise traveling into that part of the country at all.
It will share. The A4 was closed between more
briancon and all roads. North to south a closed over
sores were playing. The M50 motorways closed in
herefordshire and M5 is only possible with care.
Well, that's a motoring information.
Now here's a quick look at the weather forecast.
Most districts will have bright periods although patches of
freezing fog, May persist in a few areas, they'll be scattered
snow showers mainly over Eastern and Northern Scotland.
Southwest England will have outbreaks of snow possibly
giving heavy Falls and places. Although rain is likely times in
extreme Southwest. The snow May extend to the
extreme South of Wales and some other Southern Coastal, counties
of England, for time. It will continue very cold and
Frosty, the outlook for Monday and Tuesday.
Continuing very cold with severe.
Overnight Frost, there'll be sun intervals, but also snow In
places and patches of freezing fog.
That's the forecast.