CHAPTER VThe telephone call which Robert Grenville put through brought a police-car with four plain-clothes C.I.D. men in it. Of these, two stayed with Macdonald to assist him in searching the studio, and two were despatched on other business, one to The Knight Templar, and one to ensure that Mr. Robert Grenville did what he’d been told to do—or failed to do it, as the case might be. A variety of tools and implements were removed from the car, and the three men went into The Morgue looking equipped for duties of sexton, surveyor and plumber respectively.
Police work is always thorough and orderly, seldom spectacular, and on this occasion three experts in the detection of crime set to work as calmly—but more energetically—than the usual phlegmatic British workman. Under Macdonald’s directi
