The Stone That Never Came Down
“Automatically he patted the bulge in his pocket where he carried a precious test-tube well protected with plastic foam and cotton-wool.“I don’t imagine Maurice did, either,” Randolph said greyly. “After what Gifford let slip, though … Isn’t it incredible? It’s the kind of thing you read about in other countries, and smugly believe could never happen here.”“Exactly,” Kneller said, locking the car. “And– Oh, we must have timed it perfectly. Isn’t that Chief Inspector Sawyer?” He pointed at a dark...-coated man favouring one foot as he climbed Malcolm’s steps.“So it is. Fantastic how he deduced what had happened to him, isn’t it? And to think we had his name right in front of us and didn’t make the connection!”“Well, when he phoned he said he never uses the double-barrelled version … Ah, there’s Malcolm opening the door. Come on.”A moment later, in the hallway, Malcolm was saying, “So you’re the mysterious ‘David Eric Jarman-Sawyer’, are you?”“I still don’t know how you worked that out,”MoreLess
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