17 ?" It was Furneaux who put the question, and Theydon was genuinely astonished.
"Do you mean--" he began, but Furneaux laughed, almost savagely.
"I mean Mrs.Lester's flat," he said.

"The poor woman's body is at the mortuary.

If you come with us we can reconstruct the crime.

It occurred about this very hour if the doctor's calculations are well founded." Theydon rose.
"I shall be most--interested," he said.

"By the way, Mr.Furneaux, yours is a French name.