We present Speedy death by Gladys Mitchell dramatized for
radio by Elizabeth proud with Mary wimbush as mrs.
Lestrange Bradley Leslie, Phillips is casters and Michael
Cochran as Bertie, philipson, Speedy death.
I know what I know and I deduce, what I did.
Deuce, I am a psychologist. Not a policewoman.
Accusation is not my business noise storytelling.
Mr. Carstairs would be a better choice for that.
He enjoyed the confidence of the police.
Well, it's true. That is an entomologist.
I've had some experience of detective work.
It's also true. That of all the people involved
in this extraordinary Affair, I alone was never Under Suspicion,
not even mrs. Bradley, suspected me, true, my
friend continue. It was the August 1929.
Several of us were staying at Jennings Aleister.
This country has I'd known being a long time.
He called himself an archaeologist though.
In fact, it was only a rich man's hobby.
He was a widower and he's unmarried daughter.
Eleanor ran the house. His son, God was the medical
student, the story starts on Tuesday.
The 13th with the young guard, Bing waiting at the railway
station for his fiancee, one of the guests Bertie Phillipson.
It was within their, she has God do this to Nora.
Hey, darling. Hello Bessie.
I didn't expect to see you. I'm along Dorothy for goodness
sake. It's nearly half-past six
Houses, full of awful people and dinners at 7:30 of all ungodly
hours, dashed early. But, you know, what?
L do things like It's very nice to see you again, Betty, what
have you been doing with yourself?
I've been having about, you know, as I got to know for lips,
I came to realize that he wasn't at all the silly ass.
He seemed to be, he was older than me soon, to he'd fought in
Flanders in the Great War, had quite a beast.
The time I suspect, he never spoke of it, he'd known Dorothy.
Well, for some time and I think was in love with her.
Still the little lounge. Lizard.
Betty. Why don't you get yourself
something to do? Oh, I don't know.
I mean not much point is that of course if you cause if you well,
if things had been different busy, I'm sorry.
I do like you ever so much but with God, it's different.
There's something about him. Yes, there is his size and his
be slit ever. You'll have to be a good kid
when you're married. And I know, you can't think how
exciting it is to be scared stiff of your future.
What are you saying about my woman telling nothing?
Do be careful. I'm sure the driver or not to
take notice of what the people behind the saying, no.
Betty. Tell me about all the guests at
Unix. Is there anyone?
I know, let me see, you know, a fellow called mountjoy needs
Nora. I've heard of him a large hairy
loud-voiced primitive, sort of creature with a big black beard.
All right. He's a little slim clean-shaven
shy. He's on a fellow.
In fact, the only person who seems to be able to get two
words out of him inside. Well, who do you think taught
Eleanor Eleanor? It is, in fact, she's engaged to
the fellow out of visually, a cause pull yourself together
Buzzy. I've never seen anything.
So wildly improbable as elements Behavior with men.
You'd ever think she was godsister.
Then there's mrs. Bradley no.
Huh? Little oh reviled clever
sarcastic, sort of day. I believe she's a witch good
else. Although friend of yours, isn't
she? God, did you get you out of a
rather nasty scrape on bit reason?
I understand enough not to whoop.
Sorry. Old man loves head.
Nobody quite knew who she was or why she had been invited when I
asked him later. She only laugh.
Then there's a chap named castas.
Very decent, scientific sort of bloke, people's ours, havoc, and
that's not apart from your future.
Father-in-law has bad-tempered as ever.
I suppose. I do things not so bad.
You don't seem too much of him. He can't stand.
This is Bradley by the way but he gets on famously with
Carstairs and about dry chapped a Enjoy the fellows an ass.
He's certainly very late for dinner.
Do you know, Carstairs is very afternoon that that nincompoop
than ever are mountjoy stated as his considered an expert opinion
that the mound on Belden. Dow isn't an ancient British
earthwork but the remains of a bunker on the old golf course.
Pretty ridiculous fella. Well, what is it Mabel?
I mean Cobb, if you please sir, Parson says that is the mountjoy
went to take his bath upwards of an hour ago and has not
reappeared. Reappeared.
What do you mean reappeared fella?
Isn't a disembodied Spirit. It is don't Partners to go and
knock on the bathroom door. Nicholas fella.
What are you waiting for call. If you please, Miss Elena
Parsons is hammered and hammered at the bathroom door and there's
no answer. We think the gentleman must In
taken out on such nonsense, rubbish, Happy Fish.
I remember the friend of mine fainted in the bath some four
years ago, she drown myself, I think I'll go and see if there's
anything wrong. Yes, indeed, I'll come with you
Dad very well but the whole thing's ridiculous.
I say, aloha. Do you think I should give to
nobody? Of course.
Not. I expect.
It's all false alarm. If you're not going to eat
anymore, Dorothy the girl can remove the plates.
Cobb guards legs were longer than mine.
By the time I reached the upstairs Landing, he was already
subjecting, the bathroom door to a vigorous hammering must have
fainted. But we break in half a minute.
We might as well try the handle first.
Go to heaven. He won't lock.
Well, I'm damned it's a woman. I said she's dead, a doctor
adult elephant. Where the devil is not Joy,
though. There's no doubt.
She's dead. No doubt about it.
I've studied enough medicine to be sure of that.
So we're in business. Isn't what the hell was she
doing? Having a bath in her house?
Who is she? How did you get in?
I'm a devil of a lot of other things such as such as a
bathroom window being wide, open, top and bottom, and the
door being unlocked. Where's that chat?
Mountjoy dead are dead, won't you?
I know it's a shock but we have to face it.
That woman is mountjoy. All right.
And I shouldn't tell your sister to her verbal but you'll have to
learn about the death of man Choi.
Yes. The fact that mountjoy was a
woman no but I get you rather bad luck to find out of the
chopper engaged to his woman. What mother, stop being a fool.
It was no use, I'm afraid young being made a poor fist to
Breaking the news to his sister, he's dead, who white mountjoy?
Of course. That's why he didn't come down
to dinner. He couldn't.
He was drowned in the bath. God.
What do you mean? I mean, that mountjoy is dead as
a doornail. But look, here are castle doctor
here. Any minute?
Not, they can do anything for her daughter.
The girl now, Well, I think we might repair to the drawing
room. Now, according to Betty, even
mrs. Bradley looked astonished at
that. Next morning, I Came Upon that
redoubtable woman talking to bethey on The Veranda.
Good morning, mr. Carstairs, you are just in time
for a serious intellectual discussion.
Oh yes, mr. Phillotson here thinks that an
accident took place in this house last night.
Oh, now I think it was a suicide.
Oh, I can trust you to people not to act idiotically if I tell
you something very unpleasant, I suppose that's not.
Cause there was murder. Message in this house last
evening and see that. What you say, cast?
I say murder. Carefully planned deliberately
executed murder first. There is the queer fact that
although a man known to the scientists of two continents, is
everard mountjoy went into that bathroom.
We found an unknown woman drowns their and no trace of Mount Joy
except his dressing-gown. What I'll do.
Woman. But Dash it.
God said that the dead person was mountjoy.
Yes. You mean that mountjoy went into
the bathroom locked, the door flung of his dressing-gown and
turned into a woman? It seems incredible does but it
must be the truth. Besides, he did not lock the
door. Didn't lock the door.
Nope. Wrong.
Yes huh? That's Pizza is.
Yeah exactly. Then there's another thing.
Yes. The bathroom window was wide.
Open up the bottom well, but It doesn't that show that the real
Mount Joy? The man left the bathroom by the
window and that the woman. Whoever she was, then enter the
bathroom the same way or by the door.
No, I'm afraid it won't wash flips and first where did this
woman leave her post? Secondly, why should mountjoy
take the trouble to climb out of the window when he could just
have walked out of the front door, thirdly?
Why should a strange woman break into a house and have a
bathroom? It's not yours.
Jurors have is precisely, no, no mountjoy was the lady and the
lady was mountjoy and I intend to avenge his death Bravo.
How do you intend to begin? The have you any proof?
Will you inform the police? I have a clue but I don't know
where it is. There there may be a case for
the police. No, will you excuse me?
Now, I must talk to being. Of course somebody in this
house, did it? You realize that fact, don't you
look here? You're not suggesting that I
murdered the poor devil and I accuse no one ever.
Seriously, do you tell me that one of these?
I'd Ordinary well-bred. Decent, civilized, people
committed. A beastly, and unreasonable and
in logical crime as that I simply cannot believe it only
you must, you must get it well into your head, and then you had
better prepare for yourself. Asylum foolproof, watertight
gilt-edged, Alibi for mr. Carstairs won't rest until he
gets a noose around somebody's neck.
Well, I'm blessed anyway. I might imagine you thought I
did it. Do you miss is Redneck?
No, I'm not concerned a bit with whether you did it or not.
I'm concerned that you do not get hanged for it.
Young man, somebody will be hanged to see who.
Yes. And it won't be me.
Well, I know go on to say no, it may be used in evidence against
me. I don't trust you.
You see? I found a disturbing in the
library in his most truculent, mood.
I take it very ill that you should suggest that such a thing
as a murder could have occurred in my house.
Carstairs. All kinds of wild rumors, May
spread. Look here.
I feel that we should. At least try and prove.
Whether the dead body is that of everard mountjoy.
There can be no doubt, Alistair didn't match oil.
Use two fingers on the left hand after an accident on one of his
hunting trips. Yes, he did.
Those two fingers on the left hand of the corpse are missing.
Oh, there'll be an inquest, of course, and all sorts of
scandalous Tales banded about Eleanor will be most upset and
maybe, but what concerns me is the fact that now Choi was
murdered. You have no proof, you have no
right to make such a statement. The Unholy active that What he
was was carried out at a time when everybody was dressed in
for dinner, that is to stay at a time when nobody can fully
account for himself or herself upon my word Bing.
You're quite right? And then there's the fact that
the Intruder knew that mountjoy wouldn't even cry out at the
sight of him and he clambered, in, through the window.
Yeah. But the murderer didn't get in
by the window. Why didn't he?
Because it's a physical impossibility.
The bathroom windows. At least 20 feet above ground
level and there's no foothold for Climbing.
But there's a balcony. Outside Miss Clarks room.
Next door. Oh nonsense.
It's to hideously dangerous and undertaking for words.
No, sane person would dream of attempting it and no sane
person. Mmm, look at we can soon settle
whether or not it is a possible feet.
Let us have another look at the bathroom.
Huh? Rubbish.
Now I can't have been drowned, people don't allow themselves to
be drowned as easily as all that.
Don't take off your coat and get him to the bar that's quite
right. I come on, come on.
This is a serious damage fish. Nicholas nonsense.
Come on, man. By the way which of us to do.
You take to be the stronger. My cell phone doubtedly.
I am both taller and heavier than you and fitter to No Doubt.
Sit down really Carstairs. This is a waste of time.
Good now I sit Here on the edge of the path.
I'm talking to you on a subject which vitally concerns?
Both of us. Rubbish for I'm tired of this
Foolery. I'm going to get my mind.
You had one that they're caught you off balance by putting your
feet up. I proceeded to Hold Your Head
Underwater until you lose Consciousness.
You see what? Yeah Osprey.
And I didn't intend it to start and I'm sure you both To head.
But as a demonstration of how much I probably met his death or
rather her death. I think it was rather successful
now, scientifically speaking, don't you agree?
Well, I see your point. Yeah, that balcony does come
pretty close. It'll be Child's Play to step
over onto the sill. And this window is an ordinary
sash. So he pulled it, open climbed in
and Look here, though the inside seals a bit hyena.
No, more than four feet. What everybody's foot on?
I wonder the bathroom stool, my clue where gone man, gone.
It was under the window and the murderous stepped onto it and
his shoes left. Some Mark.
So he took it away with him. He did it, it would give him
away. Yes, I see.
Find the store, find some Jewels, which could have marked
or stain. The store, find the owner of the
shoes, and there's a murderer neat.
We're too neat. Can't be as easy as that.
And no look. I suggest that we try to
reconstruct the crime. Shall I do the climbing?
Or will you? We could do with an assistant?
I think, oh, look, there's Phillips, I'm crossing the lon.
Let's enlist him. Yes, I follow mr.
Bing, I'm to hike over this balcony.
Railing shove Mattel on that bit of flattened water pipe.
And here's my other knee under the bathroom window sill, right?
It is the bathroom, isn't it? Is the bathroom?
Yes, a light week to anything. That's how he got in tough
young. Egg, the murder.
I mean, well, here goes did. I think we should go back to the
bathroom and witness the experiment from there.
Don't you guys do. Excellent.
Help. Help, help.
Help. Help out.
Let me down. Help help.
I can't get down. Yeah, you are father.
Put the stool somewhere for me. Please ha.
Why cops should have put two stools in the upstairs bathroom
and none in this is more than I can explain got it.
Hey mr. Carstairs.
No. Need to snap.
I'm so sorry miss being but it is essential that I examine the
stool. If you wish to do physical
exercises, I wish you would find somewhere a little less
dangerous. You might have jumped you idiot.
You still sitting there gibbering.
What if I had as you've gone clean through the floor?
Well that proves that the murderer must have had something
to step down but not the stool. Hey, mr.
Carstairs it. Clean as a whistle.
Yeah. God quite ride.
Rather puts an end to your theories.
I'm afraid casters. And where's the motive?
Anyway, yes, indeed. I give a good deal to know what
motive, anybody in this house had for murdering mountjoy.
Exactly. Now I'm afraid it was just a
nasty accident. Oh, and by the way, all of you,
I'm sure I needn't ask you not to let Elena know that mountjoy
was really a woman. It's bad enough for the poor
girl that breaking her Pride as well as ha ha.
I must go father she shows No sign of a broken heart as far as
I can see, although you never really know what else thinks or
feels about anything. Still debit awkward having to
remember that. She doesn't know how young man
was a young woman. After a sleepless night.
I took myself off to the summerhouse to think things out.
I just decided that what I really wanted was intelligent
listener. When mrs.
Bradley popped up for all the world like a Cheshire Cat.
There's something peculiar going on in this house and it, but
term, Make you do. Think it was murder?
Yes. And the clues must be all around
us, but we can't even see them. Well, we know some window open,
at the bottom unlikely deceased would have had it so door
unlocked unlikely deceased would have neglected to lock it
bathrooms. Two missing.
Oh, that's been found my best Clues gone worse.
Oh, found her in the bathroom. On the top floor, the made
appears to have put two stools in the upper bathroom and none
in the lower one. It is exceedingly amusing.
Did you question the made about it?
No. But miss beings.
Hello. Hello know what exactly did she
say? Oh, Millie that she found two
stools in the upper bathroom and couldn't imagine what Kaaba been
thinking about. You don't think she was lying.
Blow, if Eleanor said she found two stools up there, she was
probably speaking the truth but do you mean to tell me that you
didn't have a look at the other stool?
Good Heavens. What a Cool.
I mean you mean that the other stool exactly two Lakes.
My friend, I fear, Not proven one.
What a little tap and then we do have you which no really a
fairly observant human being, mmm.
Well, of course, you're quite right.
Mabel cop, told me that Miss byng, notice a mark of painter
or tar on the court. Top gave orders that it should
be cleaned off. Hence, the strongest smell of
turpentine, hanging about the house yesterday.
Seems to me that Eleanor couldn't Shield the criminal
better if she knew we was. You think she knows?
Something. You must question everyone.
Slowly and patiently. Yes.
But supposing hair object. They will love it.
Well shall we start with Alistair?
Been? What?
Exactly are you attempting to insinuate Costello?
Anyway? Oh come now being?
I mean to avenge monk? Joy's death aren't you going to
help me? No, I am not.
I didn't like mountjoy and I don't mind.
Who knows it. Have a good time together.
I'm not sorry, he's dead. But the whole thing is a
confounded nuisance. There Hannah.
I'm sure you feel better by having said that mr.
Bing, yes, I do for mountjoy. So you still think it was murder
Carstairs. If so, the best thing you can
do, is to lay your suspicions before the police.
I'm not at all anxious to call in the police, and I'll tell you
why I believe, I know who the murderer is.
What do you know? I know about the open window.
The unlocked door, The Disappearing, stool stool, which
reappeared, but in the wrong bathroom, the right from stool,
which have been soiled and was cleaned with turpentine.
And then, of course, there is the missing more.
Yes, you what you think, what, what missing?
Watch my little joke, Chuck. I'm going to calling the police
at once. I refuse to have my house turned
into a shock on this paradise. Alistair I found out
sympathizing with him over the private detective business.
Now, do you recognize this watch?
Mr. Carstairs. Oh, should they rarely is a
walk? It's not a choice.
Of course, what about it? It wasn't in Mount Joy's bedroom
after her death yesterday. I know because I looked for it
and this morning, I found it. It was at the bottom of the Jug
on Monday. Joy's wash.
Stand The Jug, was 3/4 full of water round, watch drowned
woman. What, but why did he?
I mean, she keep a watch in the toilet jug, and he seemed
utterly idiotic, don't put another word in place of
idiotic, and I think you hit it mad.
Mmm mountjoy. I was mad.
Add and it wasn't murder. Thank goodness.
But suicide. Oh, I'm so glad you found that
watch. Well, I hate to undersea view
but it was most certainly a murder and not mountjoy, but the
murderer was mad. Oh, but well in that case,
please go on. Oh, nothing.
You were going to say that. If I'm right then your
conclusion as to the murderers identity must be wrong.
Good Heavens. He is it true.
Voya merely applied psychology. So now, do you tell me who you
thought it was? I thought it was you how to
gorgeous naturally was rather unique method of putting out of
the way, a person, one disliked only, I shouldn't have forgotten
that I'd left the window wide open.
Besides, I'm not quite long enough in the leg for that climb
from the balcony out of the bathroom window.
I tried it this morning for anyone with often found.
I couldn't quite manage it very obvious point, which was
certainly have occurred to me later, but in any case, I'm
convinced now that you didn't take much Choice life.
You see, whichever way you turn, you come up against this snag.
Who had a motive for killing that poor woman.
Poor woman, poor woman. I don't follow there.
Goes the gone for lunch. I will leave you to cogitate mr.
Carstairs drown. Watch drowned woman.
Poor woman. Hmm.
Mrs. Bradley really was extraordinary.
If I hadn't been convinced that she wasn't the murderer, I
should have been equally convinced that she was drowned,
watch drowned woman indeed. Meanwhile, however, as third
already taken a hand in the matter after lunch, he called me
into the library. Let me introduce you to the
chief comfortable, the count here.
So Joseph Mitchell and inspect are boring I've invited them to
make a quite informal preliminary investigation.
How do you do suggest enough to know?
Inspector afternoon? The gentleman with the theories.
I've read your notes, mr. Carstairs.
Very interesting. Very you have actually
questioned people though. Well, not having any official
standing. I felt quite sure.
Now, the man who first raised the alarm Parsons correct.
Did he valid about Joy? Well, he would lay out a clean
shirt and turned. Of Taps on and so forth.
We've never required to render more personal service, and of
course, that's also quite comprehensible now.
Yes, yes. The sex business, of course, I
should like to see Parsons a moment.
If I may and perhaps we might go up to the bathroom.
Parsons you remember? Running the bath for mr.
Mont jouy. On the evening of his death,
don't you? Yes.
Did you turn on both caps at once?
No sir the hot tap first and then tested the temperature of
the water with the birth thermometer and reduce the heat
by means of the cold. Tap to the number of degrees
specified by mr. Mountjoy, who is very particular
in such matters. Evidently now, would you
remember exactly how high up the bath?
The level of the water was when you have finished your elaborate
preparation. Yes, sir.
About their got the measure, voting sir.
Good man. Around nine point three inches
down sir. But look here, when we took the
body out, the water was right up to the Overflow pipe.
Was it now? Yes, boring 5.1 inches down side
0. This becomes interesting boring
Parsons. I want you to think carefully at
what time did mr. Mont jouy enter the bathroom 10?
Minutes to 7:00. Sir.
What time was it when you heard him, turn the water on, again,
7:17 side, and remember because mr.
Mark, Joy was what you might call her quick Beaver, sir in
and out and dry and half-dressed inside a quarter of an hour.
He was that's why it was particularly surprised.
He took such a long time that evening.
Then I heard the Taps turned on caps, both caps.
Yes sir, both it The two make quite different noise from just
the one. What show go on.
Well, sir, I was puzzled. It was so unusual in all the six
weeks. Mr. Mountjoy was here, I'd never
known him stay in the bath like that.
Mmm, now, one more question, who came out of this bathroom
directly afterwards, carrying the bathroom stool, where nobody
sir, how could this? This there was nobody in there
except mr. Mountjoy.
We were there the entire time a did go away for about 3 minutes
now. I think of it.
So why Miss Elena had asked me to speak to Maple Cobb about the
flowers. Oh, oh yes, sir.
Immediately after lunch Miss Eleanor said, or you might just
tell cop that I've ordered more roses for this evening, she
better see about them at once. Well, I'd forgotten But what I
heard Mister maou Joy toddler Taps on.
I thought I'd just have time to run downstairs.
I see thank you. Parsons, you have been of
tremendous assistance. Thank you.
Sorry. There goes an innocent man
servant of impeccable bearing at a model witness or one of the
cleverest criminals on home. And for the life of me I can't
tell which way you don't mean that.
You think mountjoy was murdered. I haven't the slightest out of
everything. I still need to interview the
entire household to find out who can be acquitted of Suspicion.
Being a been right about the awkward time of the murder.
None of us had another buyer apart from, mrs.
Bradley come, mr. Carstairs.
All the servants have Alibis as well by the way you haven't
forgotten The Cliff Walk. You promised to show me how
Buell Cliff Walk? Yes, I want to talk to you and
me. Dan talk here.
No. Here Comes John Phillips.
And already I say I feel all the Dipper.
My delicate Constitution when Stan.
More this look at I'd like to tell you people something and
then perhaps you'll advise me whether to tell that policeman
Johnny yes what does any of this?
You never devil of a Time mugs. I was in their bathroom.
Yes. Well, I waited and waited, you
know, until at last I got so fed up that I went and twisted the
handle of the door to her. Mother bit her.
Yes, her. Well, I swear the door was
locked the high and Then someone inside squeaked out, don't come
in just like that. High-pitched, you know, and
nervous. Well, of course I yelled.
Sorry, and came away and it was after that.
I met you guys, there's coming out of the top floor, bathroom.
Yes, I remember it. Well, it wasn't Mount Choice
voice. What I'm sure it wasn't my
choice, voice was low pitched and rather harsh.
This voice was high rather shrill, an absolute woman's
voice. If you understand Scared you ran
away. Well, that's quite
comprehensible. I think you started mindfully
badly. I expect.
And in her Terror lest you should discover her secret.
She shrieked out you in her normal instead of a disguised
Voice by Juve. I never thought of that Charlie,
bring any of you to have thought that out, mrs.
Bradley opinions, do firm. Do you think?
I ought not to tell the police after all then I should say, no,
not yet. I'll keep my men.
Thanks very much. And now for our walk.
Mr. Carstairs. Let us make for the sea.
Like for very but we didn't come just to enjoy the sea here.
Did we know queer about that voice young Phillips and heard
it must have been my joy. Impossible lunch.
Oh it must have been dead by that time.
Yes. But your own perfectly plausible
explanation just now Merely to put young Phillips and off the
scent. You see the guilty person must
never know. That anybody suspect anything,
it would be fatal. If my deductions are correct and
as the best on pure psychology I don't suppose they'll turn out
to be at fault. We have to deal with a person
who values like so little that she will stick at nothing she
but surely this wasn't a woman's cry though.
I am sure of it but the kind from the balcony to window.
Not at all difficult, I could do it if I were an inch longer in
the leg. Look here.
Who knew that mountjoy was a woman.
No one. Are you sure?
Surely. You can put your finger on the
person in the house who hated my joy with the intense and bitter
hatred of one. Whose finest feelings, who's
noblest emotions have been played with mocked at and
scorned deal. You did good god.
Of course. Let us go back to the house.
Pull down. Yeah.
You do you really mean that? Of course, We're all murderers,
some indeed, and some in thought. this one saw her
opportunity and Dinner by tacit consent was a cheerful meal
only, but he flips them, appeared preoccupied.
And after dinner mrs. Bradley Dragged In out into the
moonlit Garden. Mr. Phillips.
And we can speak freely out here.
Eleanor has been making herself a nuisance to you.
Hasn't she what? How on Earth do you know?
Tell me all about it. Well, when I started two years
ago, Elinor began to suggest that I should well fall in love
with her. I suppose, you caught it once
she asked me out, right to marry her.
I tried to let it unlikely, you know, then she made a
suggestion, I can't go into that, but I, let us see how
horrified I was and made some excuse to obeying and left.
Well, I only came down here this time because God said Elinor was
engaged and I was Keen to see Dorothy again and I thought
mountjoy probably put me out of my money.
Yes. Well always right as rain until
Monday evening after dinner and then she started leaning against
man kinda home a beastly happened.
It was awful Monday. Are you positive the day before
my joy died positive? Because I remember the young
Tuesday, Eleanor, will surely have more sense of decency of
them to come and more me tonight and it was all right on Tuesday
night back on Wednesday. That that is last night.
Well, she came to my bedroom about 12:30 and and wanted to
stay there. I discover outside, not the door
Choice, isn't it? Well, of course you will.
Killed or tonight. You better?
I shall. Yes.
We're leave. Everything else to me.
Hmm. Shall we go in?
Hi Betty. What about the light?
Fantastic. Father, shall we do treading on
your corns House of mourning? And so on was that I thought
would have some dancing. Oh, my all me.
And my boy, the others would like it.
All right. So go to my study.
I think I'll come with, you father.
I could look up your references for you if you like, I'm glad
sisters. On, she hates dancing.
Right, what we have foxtrot is the only thing I can manage
hotspot. It is however, the machiner know
you worked. Dorothy Syracuse at the dance
with me. Come on.
Then do this. Will you do me?
The honor woman is the juicy. Jimmy did in that Montagne.
All right, hand it to me. Yep, that's the way.
And if me season four Genera de Medici who would flutter a
mother? The funnel A Gifted woman that
if we are. We going out and Hall Ballroom
to don't, you know, he'll say that I can Don't, you know that
I'm on the verge of being married to God and malls, the
pity and is it Go easier to analyze a, uh, he's gonna ask
God to shoving a walls, eye view in the mood for it.
So it appeared tell him that I'll lend him.
His went to the next dance with three.
If he's a good boy. That is young man.
Such goings-on. Yeah, it's pretty.
Mike. You bad girl.
Be careful. Darling.
I'll catch up. I'm so sorry.
Dorothy don't mention it. It really doesn't matter.
Scrap Dorothy said. Yeah, I leave them and come out
for a breath of air. Did you say it was your cock,
your own actual property? Yes, I always take it with me
when I visit people. It's like a friendly voice.
If I wake up in the night, but why should Eleanor be carrying
it about the house? What were you doing?
When she dropped it? That aspect, it was trying to
kiss me. He doesn't mean anything by it.
I see Dorothy. I want you to do something for
me. I'm going to make a little
experiment tonight. Would you mind sleeping in the
other twin bed in my room? Well, it's just for one night
and you mustn't, tell anyone what we're going to do, not even
God. You see ever since the the
murder I haven't felt safe with anyone.
Except God. I had a bad car smash last year,
and it's made me stupidly nervous.
I know it's silly because the only person who had any reason
to do such a Dreadful thing was the most unlikely of all of us
who why hello? What makes You say she had a
reason. Well, I know she wasn't happy
because she came into my room weeping and saying, she didn't
know what to do about, what about her engagement.
I said, if she felt unhappy about it, she should break it
off. Excellent advice.
What did Eleanor say? But you'd have to go through
with it because of the shame. Of course you can see what I
thought she meant. Mrs. Bradley even though I could
scarcely, imagine Prim Eleanor getting herself into that sort
of model. But now I know she must Yes.
Well, found out about everard mountjoy six.
So really it was a blessing. He I mean, she was drowned from
Ellen has point of view? Yes, I expect.
That was Eleanor's point of view.
When did this touching conversation?
Take place, by the way, while I was getting ready for dinner on
Tuesday. I'd only just arrived, you know,
and I realized I'd left my powder compact in the motor.
So I had to dash down and get it leaving, Ellen?
When your bedroom, I see, well, my dear you may tell your fiance
about tonight's experiment. But nobody else.
Listen, while I tell you what to do.
Finished everything. Yes, everything.
The the dummy looked horribly life.
Like in my bed, I put my shingle cap on it and cold scared.
Never mind getting to bed earlier.
Clear mind, it's tremendously important.
That no one knows you're here. Good night, buddy.
What did you think it was? Oh, isn't it horrible?
Yes it is, but it might have been worse.
Mabel possums. Violence.
Now then Eleanor tell us what has happened?
I went into her room to ask for it and and well don't see for
yourself Come Along.
Come with me. I'm going to give you something
to make you sleep and when you faking it, I'll send someone
along to see how you are. No, no.
Don't send anybody. I don't know.
The rest of us went into Dorothy's room lying on the bed
was a dummy. Its head cunningly fashioned
from a Guy Fawkes. Mask partly obscured by rose
pink single cab gruesome enough in all conscience.
But what was infinitely? Worse was the fact that the head
was staved in as though from a terrific blow and lying across
the dainty coverlet was a heavy poker.
You are still recovering from our first sight of this
monstrosity when mrs. Bradley arrived.
Just look at this. Mr. Bradley.
Will you I think we must be harboring?
A maniac. Yes, nasty.
Nasty. Its fateful the poker.
Yes. But supposing I have been lying
there instead of The dummy where you weren't so it's all right.
I should have been if it hadn't been for mrs.
Bradley, hey, what's that? That's true.
I should have been sleeping here tonight, mrs.
Bradley haven't suggested. Experiment.
You mean, it was your idea to Fashion this frightful F regime
is it Brandon, but had you any reason any inkling of any just
an intuition? Oh, rubbish rubbish.
Could not father. There's no need to be rude to
mrs. Bradley, I think this is the
most ghastly attempt murder I ever knew about me.
I'm so sorry. I said that, You're a mr.
Bradley, by all means. I shall accompany you and I
suggest that everyone should try to get some sleep.
We can continue our discussions at breakfast.
I thought the end of the world was come and we were listening
to the last shriek of the damn sure.
Did I absolutely am Elena is apparently washing of the shock.
At least, the bathroom door was locked and I assumed it was
Ellen on. Poor.
Ellen are by the way, buddy. Hmm.
Where were you last night? Well, I It begins to get up but
when I saw the mobs of people on the landing I thought I might as
well get back in bed. I'm Dolly God.
Dorothy was sleeping in mrs. Bradley's room.
I knew she was going to of course yes and I what I
overheard your conversation with Dorothy the devil so you knew
where she was all the time. Yeah but it's a beastly
business. I mean anyone who would want to
put a topping girl, I don't the out of the way.
Must be absolutely bad. This time the bathroom door was
locked, so we forced it. Open on mrs.
Bradley Telephone from the doctor.
Sure enough Helen was inside clad in her dressing gown lying
over. Side of the bath with our head
touching the bottom. Oh heavens God, should drown.
We carried her into a bedroom and attempted artificial
respiration but he works like one possessed.
Eventually the doctor original philipson.
You're exhausted. You take it down now.
Young being right water. If she wasn't actually in the
bathroom, seems to cast and know her feet were on the floor, but
her head was touching the bottom of the bath.
She had the waist plug chain twists Advanta a.
So there was no water in the bar.
No, there's another thing. Got cats.
Not Tom. That's it.
She'll do the dose of Salva literally, and she'll be right
as rain Phillips. Oh, he's passed out.
You fool. My cousin.
Paul go to bite her tongue. Clean off falling all over.
I like that. Just when she's coming Brown.
Oh my dear take, hold of this glass Elena.
My dear sir, Joseph and inspector boring have asked to
see you. I hope you feel better Miss
being quite I. Thank you, glad to hear it.
Well. If you feel equal to doing so we
should like you to answer a few questions at first, first, I
should like to request my father, to descend to the study
for a copy of one of the Latin authors, which one my dear.
Anyone you like, but don't return with it in less than a
quarter of an hour. I imagine these gentlemen will
have concluded their Inquisition by that time.
And now, mr. Bing, we want you to tell us
what caused you to fall headfirst into the bath this
morning. I was overcome by a feeling of
extreme faintness and was unable to call for help before I was
wrapped in complete. Oblivion the only one there is
that I'm alive to tell the tale. Also I am informed by those who
rescued me. Yes, yours is a devoted family
Circle. Oh come now mr.
There's no need for us to fence. Who you shielding against
shielding? Pray, explain yourself who
attempted to murder you in the bathroom this morning.
I come now my dear inspector, you are talking the most utter
nonsense. Nobody attempted any such thing.
I think today as I have told you that is all I can say and as I
am still weak, I feel sure you will relieve me of your presence
as soon as possible. Of course, she's lying.
You mean sir, somebody half throttle that young woman, I
spotted the bruises on her neck. You sound sympathetic boarding
where I can understand his feelings.
There are some women that a past all bearing Miss Eleanor Bing is
one of them huh. Now I wonder who she's
shielding? What do you say to a little
General? Interrogations carry on
boarding. Carry on.
Now, Miss Clark, who in this house had any reason to wish you
dead. You mustn't.
Ask me. Oh, come now Miss Clark.
All right, I'll tell you. It was Ellen.
But you didn't try to kill me. I'm sure she didn't.
And why are you so sure it'll be too horrible?
Yeah, yes, I agree. Miss Clark.
Thank you, miss clock. That will be all I'll ask God to
come in. If you would, please.
Fingerprints might settle the matter.
Sir, on the pouco, you mean? Perhaps?
Oh, come in and sit down mr. Bing right.
Oh, you strongly attached to your sister?
No, no before. Or after you knew of her
inimical feelings towards your fiance.
I didn't know if they're on or didn't like Dorothy.
That's news to me. I assure you.
This is never demonstrative. I see any questions boring and
no, thank you, sir. That'll be all mr.
Bing, right. Yeah, I'll get casted.
Well now, mr. Carstairs, who killed mountjoy
to the best of my knowledge mountjoy was the victim of an
accident yesterday. You said, I've changed my mind.
Good morning. Of course you won't be able to
shuffle like that in the witness box.
Who's next? Ah, good morning, mrs.
Bradley. Good morning, gentlemen.
And now then I should like to make a steak.
Yes, of course, at that take it boarding.
We're so when I was invited to stay at this house, I was
intensely interested from the start in Eleanor beings
psychological makeup. Or says, we all thought she was
mad and obviously Elinor thought so too, for they became engaged
to be married. And less than a fortnight later.
My dry matter them. I think you had doubts yesterday
so Joseph as to the cause of that.
Damn frankly, mrs. Bradley, I think mountjoy was
murdered. And then if I tell you that, I
had reason to believe that the murderer of my joy had designs
also upon the life of dollar thick glass.
You won't be surprised that I took the girl into my room.
Well, we'd like to know what made you get?
An attempt will be made on the girl's life.
Also, of course, we'd be interested to know the identity
of the murderer until this morning.
I should have said it. Was Eleanor being now, I'm not
at all sure that mountjoy wasn't the victim of an accident.
How did you fix on end in a bean?
I haven't any proofs which a jury would consider evidence but
I could suggest a motive now that has puzzled me a good deal.
Herod absence of motive. I present you the picture of a
woman 28 to 30 years of age intelligent and healthy.
But emotionally starved. One day, a man comes into her
life. They find mutual attraction in
one another's, Society, they become engaged.
Yes. Now, why did the woman mountjoy,
allow herself to become engaged to pour His being?
It may be. That mountjoy was urgently in
need of money. Illinois has a comfortable
Fortune. And the other woman may have
counted on her doobs fear of ridicule, being strong enough,
to keep the secret of my choice, sex, the other explanation may
sound to you extraordinary, but it is more, probably the correct
one. Have you heard of sexual
perversion not a pleasant subject?
Why don't propose to discuss it. But I do suggest you that
mountjoy may have formed a very real and very strong attachment
to Eleanor to the possibility. Of course, Whatever Happened.
One Thing must be regarded as certain in some way Eleanor
discovered, the truth about her lover motive revenge on the
person who deceived her. Exactly.
That's what I should have said until this morning.
That is certainly a very ingenious Theory, mrs.
Bradley, it does provide a strong motive for the crime, did
they tell you about the watch? Watch mountjoy his watch, which
was discovered by me at the bottom of the washstand?
Jug ground watch. Van woman that concludes my
voluntary statement jump in that bottom.
What exactly made you think that?
Would be an attempt on mrs. Clark's life.
Oh, I knew that Eleanor would kill the girl if she caught for
one thing Elena is quite mad, you know?
Well, I think you're wrong. We talked with this being this
morning and I never saw anyone who appeared more entirely and
position of all her mental faculties, and then the claw
clinched it. Oh, I didn't tell you how she
smashed the Cracking clock clock, the Freudian clock,
Dorothy's clock. Smash clock smashed woman.
My dear man. She positively flung it on the
ground when she saw them kissing.
I think we are wasting time Madam, good morning.
Good morning, gentlemen. That is a nasty cock inspection.
Hot lemon. And honey is very efficacious.
I believe it's going to have some food that woman, unnerves
me and this afternoon. We must get on with the
fingerprinting. I was rather disappointed not to
be included in the finger printing process.
It appeared that my thumbprint was so clearly different from
that. Found on the polka that it would
have been a waste of police time.
It was at this point that is on Saturday morning that he
suspected boring began to confide in me.
You're looking very jovial this morning, if I may say so, mr.
Koz, I'm going to a wedding, mr. Guard being and mr.
Clark, getting married by special license.
Are they by jove? That's a bit out of the
ordinary, isn't it? Sir.
Yesterday we take everybody's fingerprints and today these to
go and get married. I really can't see that the two
things. Have anything to do with one
another can't you sir? Well, I can't prove Miss
mountjoy was murdered and yet, I know the same as, you know, that
murder was done, but I don't know that murder was done.
As I told you yesterday. I've changed my mind now, mr.
Costas, if mountjoy wasn't murdered?
Why did someone tried to kill miss byng?
Somebody still thinks she was the murderer.
Why are these two people in such a Ready to get married.
Special licensing thing or perhaps, they think, mr.
Park stands in need of her husband's protection, mr.
Cast, as you hit it, they're afraid of another attempt on her
life and that brings us back to Eleanor Bing.
And this what, what bottles asking what does that prove
inspector that miss byng is a very poor liar.
She say that she wanted to Miss Clarks room on Thursday night
for aspirin for her near Alger. Wow, I found this bottle in the
very front of the little cupboard.
In her own room, the label says 50 tablets.
The bottle contains 31 and it's fairly safe to assume that she
hasn't taken 19 since Thursday. So, they were bought before,
then this taken in conjunction with the fact that the
fingerprints on the poker show that mr.
Bing was the last person to handle it.
Justifies mean assuming that He dealt a blow to that dummy. hope
I haven't been boring, you I don't usually say off a whole
long piece like that but I wanted to get hang of my ideas.
Inspector, you belie your name, big problem, sir, boring you
most certainly are not. Thank you sir.
I think I'll just go and establish it.
I can't exactly when this has been was purchased, I hope you
enjoy the wedding. Good Heavens.
Mrs. Bradley, but what are you doing in that bush II?
Thought that man would never go and he does hate me so much.
I didn't want to spoil his day by confronting him.
He you on the other hand, I is little ewe lamb on to her, it
would seem. So in fact, I think I could
murder the whole lot of you and still get off scot-free even
though I should be the only one left alive.
What it is down. Now, I want to know your version
of all that has occurred since we last talked to them and
forced to the conclusion that the murderer is a homicidal
maniac, who killed mountjoy and attempted to kill first Dorothy.
And then Eleanor a brawl. I know, maybe looking behind the
summer house at this moment more.
Well, I should run be alive, but there's one point.
I'm not quite clear about. I thought you'd notice.
The screen passing of your quite unique habit of reading my mind.
Why did Elena scream like that? But what do women usually
scream? Because they're in agony, or in
danger or right now let us say suddenly frightened.
We can dismiss the idea that Eleanor was in agony.
I think that leaves us with the Alternatives of from danger and
sudden fright The View that she was in danger must be lost sight
of. And that something frightened,
her is undoubtedly true. As he admitted it herself, but
her explanation is amazingly them.
She said it was the site of the dummy.
Figure in the bed, when she turned on the light.
No, I contend that. Eleanor was lying when she said
she turned on the light. Do on her.
Fingerprints were on that poker. The head of the dummy was stayed
in by heavy blow. The inference is that Eleanor
struck that blow. She must have intended to kill.
Dorothy, would shift with turning lights are.
No, no, no, no, no. The Moonlight.
She judged was sufficient. She stuck the blow and then she
screamed why? Because somebody was hiding in
the room and this person sprang out and confronted her.
He switched on the light. It was his unexpected appearance
in his fear. It's almost murderers attitude
and expression that caused Eleanor to scream.
Not only did she realize that someone had seen her kill
Dorothy, but she thought her own life was in danger but she
didn't kill Dorothy. No, but she thought she had but
but and I don't, you see that. It's also accounts for the
attempt made on Eleanor's life. If Eleanor had killed Dorothy,
she had self would never have left that room alive because
Dorothy was safety unknown witness, let Eleanor go.
Later. However, he thought better of
allowing her to remain at Liberty to ninja Dorothy on some
future occasion, so he entered the bathroom next morning.
And as he thought drowned and in or in the bath yesterday morning
trying to bring her around, oh, he must be in a staggering shock
to him. When she recovered, you say him.
I'm sure he's a man because we can all work on for Eleanor and
Dorothy and I can account for one another.
So that leaves yourself Alastair, God and barthe.
Which one do you choose? God is the likely as a fair
guess, but a mistake. I think try but he philipson but
she's not and then perhaps you'll tell me why he didn't
join the rest of us. On the landing outside on Earth
is room, wasn't it there? But you know, he wasn't, don't
you remember how God teased him at breakfast about his
non-appearance? He was still hiding behind
dollar this bed. I got a wager is been a
remarkably uncomfortable. Half hour to wondering if
Eleanor would give him away. Yes, yes, if all this is true,
why didn't you she is in love with him one, increasing
purpose, run through the whole of these unhappy Affairs.
And the theme is Eleanor's desire for Bertie Phillips.
I know I really must go and dress for the wedding.
You do see the word to be two bridesmaids.
Yes. Eleanor and a nice girl named
Pamela store been she'll come back after the ceremony for
lunch and Bertie will drive her home after dinner.
I see What? A shame that but he's such a
Charming Squire and dames. The wedding ceremony was soon
over but it was best man. Eleanor and 70 year-old Pamela
made rather ill-matched bridesmaids the weather which
been uncomfortably close all afternoon suddenly broke during
dinner. Kankuro home in this town.
Of course nod like impossible. Well, if it's all the same to
everybody, I just as soon, not take my little bastard in this,
I doubt whether you get across Hanley bottom anyway, it'll be
flattered. You better stay the night Pam.
I really think that'll be best hand.
I never mind. Do you do I?
Well, I do very well. If you will come with me mr.
Torben I'll show you your room. Thanks ever so much.
Can I come with you running? No.
Yeah me. What a disaster area boss called
can see through it. Please mr.
Boyd Dorothy. Dorothy gear.
You might land Pamela and my dress, it may not occurred well
or not. That you need one.
Of course. Hang on Pam.
I'll come with you. Let's bet you'll be in my old
room and and Dorothy if you should feel uneasy about
anything. Let me or mr.
Carstairs know, won't you? Phillips.
There you are. I hope you're not feeling sleepy
because I've gone job a work for you denial because there's what
is it help me? Keep watching Dorothy's old room
where young Pamela was supposed to sleep.
Yeah. What was the game?
Where is Pam sleeping image in mrs.
Bradley's room. Come on, come on.
Moved bed out about another four inches, so we shall meet more
comfortable behind it. When you were last time, what
you see you Nell it. Mrs. Brand new seems to know
everything. Are you gonna give me away?
Of course, not good, man. I'll tell you all about it.
It'll be quite a relief to get it off my chest, far away.
Well, of course, you know I'm fond of Dorothy who is
happiness, but she liked God better.
Anyway, I always felt that I will do anything.
On Earth for her well, on Thursday night.
I overheard God and Dorothy talking about the dummy in the
bed. And I was telling him to find
out what was going to happen. So, I sneaked into this room and
hit your where we are now behind the Bed.
Head. Yes.
Anyway, after a bit along total Eleanor compete with polka.
Honestly it was a piece. Last thing I ever saw is the
moon was fairly blasi in through the window and she Is that heavy
poker above her head with both hands?
Sit down what she thought was. Dorothy's head and I distinctly
heard chuckle. I tell you, she was mad at them
horrible. Well, I left out ever and she
screamed and ran out onto the landing, dropping, the poker on
the bed face. Mrs. Bradley was right.
Whatever woman a monthly come. I can't explain what happened
next. It was a horrible thing.
I did awful but it Think of me then but it still seems to me,
the only possible cause to have taken.
Yes, I decided that I must stop. Eleanor harming my Dorothy.
Now, I want you to believe that. I didn't actually mean to do it.
I thought I might be able to scare so much that she'd leave.
Dorothy alone. Sort of blackmail idea.
Yes, I see well early next morning, I climb from the
balcony to the bathroom window. Eleanor a just turn the taps.
Jean. I don't know if she saw me or
came over faint, but all at once she crashed it down over the
side of the bath. Well, some devil sees me then, I
rushed him and held her head underwater until I felt certain,
she must be dead and then I climb back the way I'd come.
The lack of Beelzebub. Stuck tomato a very end.
Yes. It's heaven or with a Can't go
good God. She's got a nice.
She's mad and say, stop now. Stop this.
What do you think? King of you're tired.
You want to go back to bed. Come on up.
No Nonsense. Will stand by Shall we in case?
There's no need no need for you. To stay up any longer.
Oh good night, and thank you very much for your help.
It's all right. Now, I'm Along.
Come along. Be quite all right now.
There you go. Woman.
My Yes, Carlos Jazz fixing. What's going on?
All about a noise in the house talking Good.
What it was? That rounds coming from Ellen
has room. Mrs. Bradley could have one more
somebody with Illinois. She'll complete nervous
breakdown. Never.
Yeah. And you shall have one.
There's some coffee and a flask in my room.
It's someone could fetch a cup. A cup was found.
Mrs. Bradley, ported, generous amount of Milky coffee into it
Elena, drink to the dregs when she appeared to be asleep, we
left her I think I'd better lock the door.
Don't you mr. Bing you better have the key.
Huh. Very well.
Not him to bed to bed. Goodnight.
Yes-huh think I'll toddle off to good.
Good - good night. Yes.
Why didn't you tell Alistair? I have nothing to tell him and
you know, isn't insane if that's what you mean.
Damn it. She's dangerous.
Yes, I know. But only, when anybody takes a
liking for Bertie Phillipson, it's an awful situation.
Still leaves. Hope the best in the morning.
It appeared that the best had happened.
Ellen, this body was discovered in the locked bathroom.
She was colder than the cold water in which she lay and this
time she was past saving lot ground.
You say doctor what was it in? Heart failure, mr.
Being you must prepare yourself for a shock.
I will have to call in another opinion.
The fact is I believe your daughter died from the effects
of poison. So what you make of it boarding
suicide, you think funny drag if it was heiio sin hydrobromic
mind, not easily obtained. Apparently, it's used in the
treatment of mental patients. He's hit indeed, isn't that mrs.
Bradley's line of country psychoanalysis, exactly, sir.
Yeah, we found a wine glass in the deceased's room.
It's being analyzed now. Mrs. Bradley says she gave the
girl a sleeping. Draft in that wine glass.
She also gave her a cup of coffee from her own flask in a
cup procured from the kitchen and she did that in front of
witnesses. Yeah, the trouble is the Mets.
Took the cup and washed it up. Didn't don't Bing said that.
Mrs. Bradley locked. Ellen has door and gave him the
key. Yes, Joseph.
Well, you'll find that key were thinking about boring.
Wow sir we've received the analyst report on the wine
glass, it contained an ordinary sleeping draft, just as mrs.
Bradley said, if only we could have got onto that dirty coffee,
couple, you mustn't, assume that it would have contained traces
of the poison boring. Now, what about the key of the
bedroom door? That's got me properly puzzled
mr. Bing threw it away in a fit of
panic. He says, but that interfering
made Mabel Cobb spotted him, throwing it into the Lily, Pond.
And I fished it out, alright, but it wouldn't take the door
that brings us back to mrs. Bradley's that key fits the
bathroom door. Yes, I thought as much but the
locks of the two bathrooms are identical, you know but mrs.
Bradley could have handed Alistair being one bathroom key
and use the other herself while still keeping possession of
Eleanor's. Bedroom key.
That's silly little man boring things.
I did. It makes my first very awkward
for me since the coffee cup was washed up.
You know? Oh God.
No wonder your patern. Good Lord indeed course they
will find no trace of poison in the dregs and my flask which was
not washed up only Mabel Comet left.
Well alone. I shall find myself in the dock
before many weeks that out you mark my words hon I should
bleed. Guilty and I shall get Ferdinand
Lestrange to conduct like yes, he's a very young man.
Isn't he? Is 39 and was born on my 18th
birthday. He's my son by my first husband.
Really clever boy. If I denominator When you see
good Heavens, 01. I think that must occur says,
could you give Dorothy hip little bottle of lavender water
for me. He's a crank, a very much and
tell him. I had his much better - yes.
Inspector, we are trust Lestrange badly.
I arrest you for the willful murder of Ellen, am innocent
Bing, and it is my duty to warn you that anything you say may be
taken in evidence against you Oh God, I'm looking for Alistair
that the most type of thing has happened.
Mrs. Bradley has been arrested, Bradley was a come.
That's twice. I must, we must find some clue
to her innocence. I want to see Alistair.
That's just what you can't do. Silly ass is gone to bed.
Well, it's the truth. He must have left before.
Anyone was at this morning, we've only just discovered from
his papers where he's got and that's a bit vague look here
though, Carstairs, we've come across Alan, Alda.
Is it likely to be any help to mrs.
Bradley, there's no doubt that put on says killed mountjoy.
That's me, help. Some of the things you wrote
quite curly or blood. And there's another thing
according to Eleanor's diary. Mr. Bing was having an affair
with Mabel Gob. Yeah.
Fruity isn't it? But is it true?
Well it said next Lanes. Eleanor's attitude to Mabel she
was trying to persuade her father to let the girl go and
Alice the reviews. Yes.
That explains a lot. I better question Mabel.
I think. How was I, to know action of
watch that old coffee cup, mr. Leonard have something to say a
no mistake. If I'd left it lying around
dirty. Yes.
Well, what's done is done? You didn't get on too well with
Miss Bingley. Did you?
I'm not going to speak ill of the Dead.
Sir. Mmm pity.
Well, now who was it juice on the landing on the deck?
Miss brings death. All right, I never saw.
Nobody that won't do. I want it?
You can go to Jericho with your old questions.
I can't answer any of them, I'm afraid.
Mrs. Bradley would have handled that better, but then I had a
piece of luck in the recesses of Ellen has medicine cupboard.
I suddenly discovered a small glass, containing a drop of to
of liquid. I telephoned inspector boring at
once. What's this?
The usual red herring. I've a friend in Durance vile
inspector and I'm not missing any chances.
I, suppose, you'll test this glass for fingerprints.
You suppose, right? Sir.
And it just suppose the stuff in the glass is highest in and the
fingerprints are mrs. Bradley's then what I had more
faith in mrs. Bradley's Common Sense than to
suppose any such thing. Did you know I'd be considerably
to find myself called as a witness for the prosecution.
Now he's determined to give the counselors Little Helpers I
could within strict terms of my oath, the idiot had actually
suggested that mrs. Bradley's motive for murdering
Eleanor was so that she might become as to Bing's wife
suggestion, which the accused treated with the contempt
deserve This reaction undoubtedly had its effect on
the jury clever woman. My chance came during the
cross-examination by Ferdinand the strange, mr.
Carstairs. Can you tell the court where
Alistair Bing is now on his way to Tibet?
Indeed, why did he leave England?
I understand there was an unfortunate affair with one of
the maids. Often I see exactly the kind of
man, in fact that one would expect to find a prisoner who
risking her Nick for. It soon became clear that the
absence of motive was the weak part of the prosecution's case.
That and the fact that no trace of the poison of been found in
mrs. Bradley's possession or anywhere
else for that matter. Otherwise the evidence against
mrs. Bradley was very strong.
Then came the turn of the defense gradually witnessed by
witness the strange. Demonstrated that nearly
everyone present in that house on the night of August, the 18th
had eat Cool opportunity and more reason to kill Eleanor.
Finally, he came to the medicine glass.
I'd found well, inspector, what did the residue in the glass
proved to be a solution of high arcing hydrobromic?
And did you also find a bottle containing highest in Hydra
bromide or its traces? We did not but neither among the
effects of the deceased nor in the positions of the defendant
and know it is one of the baffling elements of the case,
my Lord and where their fingerprints on the glass roof
and there were the prints were, those of the deceased woman,
that would seem to me to point to Suicide Milan.
But I'm sure the members of the jury are sufficiently
intelligent to draw their own conclusions.
Oh, thank goodness. And server telling, anyone would
think you had your doubts about the burden?
I should think anybody might be a bit windy when they got a
friend in the dog, it wasn't a shadow of evidence against him.
Was that? I don't know.
After all, when a woman is guilty of murder, must be some
evidence of his son where, you know cutie, well, how do you
think that it? Then if she didn't did Yuri said
not to give has a very nice too. I like the old go-between.
May darling, my sister was as mad as a Hatter.
In fact, I was seriously thinking about putting out a
nose light out of myself as and withdrawal.
He's sporting a mrs. Bradley, she took a big risk for
other people sakes. Of course mother.
You did do it. Oh yes.
Yes. Of course.
I did it one day. I'll tell you how told you why
it's difficult to do that. I have no personal feeling in
the mouth, you know, it'll simplified, it's up to this.
If I didn't kill Eleanor, she would kill Dorothy.
Almost positive, I didn't kill Eleanor.
God, being might owe more terribly, Eleanor would kill
Dorothy, then God would kill Eleanor and the Norwood kill
God, hmm, just as well for us. That the British public doesn't
believe in disinterested actions.
Of course, if I'd been prosecute.
By the way, Carstairs. I wonder who did Kill Eleanor?
Oh, do you think it was? Suicide is my hat?
No, no, no Phillips. And when we saw mrs.
Bradley give Eleanor that cup of coffee.
We were watching murder, take place, good Lord.
As a matter of fact, I cannot understand how mrs.
Bradley could have been so frightfully careless as to leave
that cup. About sure.
That Mabel Cub. Washed it up his butt.
Well why take the body to the bathroom?
No, I think that was just her freaky sense of humor.
Of course it was a piece of rare, good luck, my finding that
medicine glass. Yes, but surely that was strong
evidence of suicide. What did boring think about it?
Just what I thought that it was a red.
Herring directly. I found it.
I smell to wrapped. It was so beautifully convinced
Yeah, but what about the one big point?
Where is the highest hit? I mean, dashing, the bottle or
whatever? Content stuff is just vanished
Into Thin Air? Yes, indeed Phillips.
And I mean, to ask about that, if the prosecution could have
traced the highest into mrs. Bradley, But that my friend was
what they could never. Do you see?
I hadn't it in my possession after I was arrested and I
thought I had i hidden it anywhere thing where it is, you
who have hidden the highest in bottle so well, but I don't
understand. Since I cannot be tried twice
for the same offense, I will confess to you that I did Poison
Eleanor. Administered, the poison in the
copy, which I gave her. That's the highest in, you know,
better than I where it is. Well, what did you do with a
little dark green bottle of lavender?
Water? I asked you to give to Dorothy
so that's what it was. Dorothy had her own bottle of
course, and returned me yours. Well, you better make sure that
she returned the right bubble. Mine had a tiny label on the
bottom. Then it's yours.
I have. But why was I chosen for the
role of accessory after the fact because boring loved you?
So, don't you remember telling me how much he doted on you?
Poor boring? That man worked very hard and
very intelligently. He really deserved to win his
case. I can't understand how about the
coffee cup. Well, that was a hard piece of
luck. Mr. Carstairs, I took a great
deal of trouble to watch out that Up in the flask and I ran a
dreadful risk in stealing down to the kitchen, to obtain the
dregs of some on drug coffee with which to dirty them both
again. So if the dirty cop have been
analyzed, boring would have found graphy.
I find that my intelligent anticipation had been ruined by
the zealous Mabel. I was obliged to lay another
Trail, you remember. The doctor gave Elinor Salve
Latin after she was nearly drowned by darling, but a, yes,
well, I put a little higher sin into that gas assuming that it's
still bore her fingerprints. And then slid fish slice,
underneath it, thus managing, to carry it to the cupboard without
imposing my own pain. So, Varela noise.
And you never leave. Found it a fish.
Slice, what would you have use then?
Oh, I don't know of bricklayers trowel back.
Yes, quite good. But brick has towels are hard to
come by while the humble fish slice resides in every
well-conducted home. So far as I know, this was mrs.
Bradley's first experience in criminal detection.
She has of course since become Dame Beatrice the strange
Bradley consultant psychiatrist to the home office and the
detective of some considerable reputation.
It is so quick to think that the want to the fish size could have
brought that brilliant career to an untimely end that was Speedy
death by Gladys Mitchell. Ties for radio by Elizabeth
Proud. Mary wimbush.
Paid mrs. De strange Bradley Leslie.
Phillips, casters Michael Cochran, dirty philipson and
Philip, Sully guard. Being a disturbing was played by
Green Eleanor being Rowan suit. Dorothy Clark to raise a
Gallagher Mabel carbon. Pamela's torben, Louis Burgas,
David King played sir Joseph Mitchell.
Christopher Scott inspector boring.
Simon treves Ferdinand, Lestrange, and the doctor and
phrase, a car Parsons.