CHAPTER 61
“The main facts were never in dispute,” reiterated Barton. “Vanstead’s brakes failed on the hill and the car, going about fifty miles an hour, crashed into the steam roller, somersaulted and went over the hedge in full view of the road men. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the police would have been perfectly satisfied with the evidence. In this case it seems they weren’t satisfied, though they had to accept the verdict. Young argued that quite a number of people profited by Vanstead’s death, and that it would have been quite possible to have interfered with the brake drums, but he couldn’t find any evidence that they were interfered with. In spite of the fact that Young was suspicious, he wasn’t likely to have got any fresh evidence and he’d have had to leave it alone if
