CHAPTER 12Easy
Blanche Drummond lifted her eyes from the body that lay almost at her feet, but her witless stare did not fix itself on Griggs or on the crowd pressing behind him; it wandered. She put her arms out in front of her as if she were groping, and her knees gave way. Drummond shouldered past Griggs and caught her as she fell.
He carried her through the bathroom, and kicked the door of her bedroom shut behind him. Griggs watched him go with a scowl, but did not protest. He knelt down on one knee beside the dead woman, while Stromer shoved Gamadge aside and stood with his arms across the doorway.
But Gamadge had seen the long and narrow bed jutting out on the right, the night table which had held the lamp, the fallen lamp itself. A murderer need have been only a step within the r
