He had made a diligent search of the floor of the basement corridor through the store-room into the courtyard, but had found no trace of blood.

Nor did he expect to find any such trace, since it was clear that, if the murder had been committed in the flat and the night-dress which was wound about the dead man's body was Odette Rider's, there would be no bleeding.
"Of one thing I am satisfied," he said; "if Odette Rider committed this murder she had an accomplice.

It was impossible that she could have carried or dragged this man into the open and put him into the car, carried him again from the car and laid him on the grass." "The daffodils puzzle me," said Whiteside.

"Why should he be found with daffodils on his chest?
And why, if he was murdered here, should she trouble to pay that tribute of her respect ?" Tarling shook his head.

He was nearer a solution to the latter mystery than either of them knew.
His search of the flat completed, he drove to Hyde Park and, guided by Whiteside, made his way to the spot where the body was found.