...
Yes, damned ingenious, this attempted murder! Undoubtedly Strawn would
have dismissed the note as the work of a crank, not hitting upon the
fact that it had been written in that very room, on Dundee's own
typewriter and stationery. Strawn might even have got a mournful sort of
amusement out of the fact that Dundee had been advised to call upon a
greater detective than himself for assistance!... Yes, ingenious indeed!
And so amazingly simple----
Suddenly the young detective snatched for his hat. If the murderer was
so ingenious in this case, might he not have been equally clever in
planning and executing the murder of Nita Leigh Selim?
Twenty minutes later he parked his car in the rutty road before the
Selim house in Primrose Meadows, and honked his horn loudly to attract
the attention of the plainclothesmen Captain Strawn had detailed
immediately after the murder to guard the premises during the day. There
was no answer. And a violent ringing of the doorbell also brought no
response. The guard had been withdrawn, probably to join the small army
of plainclothesmen and patrolmen who had been foolishly and futilely
searching for the New York gunman--the keystone of Captain Strawn's
exploded theory.
With an oath, Dundee used his skeleton key to release the Yale lock with
which the front door was equipped.
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