Shadow of Doom (2014)
“I don’t think he could have got out of bed and gone downstairs to the telephone without waking me. I hadn’t been asleep for ten minutes before your call came, and he was fast asleep then.’ ‘What chance did he have on the way from here to the hotel?’ asked Stefan.
‘Some slight chance,’ said Palfrey. ‘He lost his way. He found us again just after Raoul and I had come into the hall. I sent him up with Raoul.’ ‘Yes, I know,’ said Stefan. ‘While with Raoul he was careless enough to kick against a chair. It might have given warning to the men who came and attacked us.’ Drusilla said: ‘Someone could have been lurking outside.’ ‘Dias would not have been so sure that he would learn all that was said,’ said Stefan, ‘if it were because he had an eavesdropper outside the windows. And that eavesdropper would have been seen by the police. Don’t you agree?’ ‘There’s one rather significant thing, though. The old gardener lives here and sleeps in a small room by the kitchen,’ said Palfrey.
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