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Summary: How footprints can incriminate.
Review: To readers of detective fiction, there is a special fascination in following the sleuth as he cracks the apparently unbreakable alibi. The fascination is heightened if we are shown both how the crime was committed and how the alibi was constructed. Master plot builder Freeman Wills Crofts provides both these perspectives and more in this vintage 1943 Inspector French mystery. An especially ingenious method of obtaining evidence and pinning the crime to the killer is included. Suspicious footprints are found, enough to measure the stride and the angles. Suspects are called to Scotland Yard to assist with a feigned identity parade. On the way to the parade they are ushered, one at a time, across an outside yard that has recently been hosed down. And sure enough ....! French constructs timetables for everything too, even the rates at which a body cools after death. This is one of the best of Crofts' mystery yarns.
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Summary: How footprints can incriminate.
Review: To readers of detective fiction, there is a special fascination in following the sleuth as he cracks the apparently unbreakable alibi. The fascination is heightened if we are shown both how the crime was committed and how the alibi was constructed. Master plot builder Freeman Wills Crofts provides both these perspectives and more in this vintage 1943 Inspector French mystery. An especially ingenious method of obtaining evidence and pinning the crime to the killer is included. Suspicious footprints are found, enough to measure the stride and the angles. Suspects are called to Scotland Yard to assist with a feigned identity parade. On the way to the parade they are ushered, one at a time, across an outside yard that has recently been hosed down. And sure enough ....! French constructs timetables for everything too, even the rates at which a body cools after death. This is one of the best of Crofts' mystery yarns.
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