Three And One Make Five (2016)
“Despite Salas’s curt, ungracious summation of the case, there were two, not one, possible motives for the murders: self-preservation or gain. Self-preservation?
Perhaps either Marsh or Massier had had reason to fear that he was about to be betrayed. Yet if that were so, then either he’d no clear idea of who the potential betrayer was or he believed that Clarke, Short and Allen, were in the conspiracy to betray him. Either possibility seemed unlikely. And would someone betray him when to do ...so must be to expose to the authorities (if the deaths were not accepted as accidental) the fact that the Marques de Orlocas’s fortune had been recovered? (Hadn’t Llobera almost certainly been murdered in order to prevent his stupidly giving away the slightest hint of what had happened?) Gain? There were five of them to share the fortune. From all accounts, the jewellery and plate had been of such quality and in such quantity that to have sold it all at once would have been to draw attention to it, whereas a piece or two could be sold from time to time without undue comment.MoreLess
Perhaps either Marsh or Massier had had reason to fear that he was about to be betrayed. Yet if that were so, then either he’d no clear idea of who the potential betrayer was or he believed that Clarke, Short and Allen, were in the conspiracy to betray him. Either possibility seemed unlikely. And would someone betray him when to do ...so must be to expose to the authorities (if the deaths were not accepted as accidental) the fact that the Marques de Orlocas’s fortune had been recovered? (Hadn’t Llobera almost certainly been murdered in order to prevent his stupidly giving away the slightest hint of what had happened?) Gain? There were five of them to share the fortune. From all accounts, the jewellery and plate had been of such quality and in such quantity that to have sold it all at once would have been to draw attention to it, whereas a piece or two could be sold from time to time without undue comment.MoreLess
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