CHAPTER TWOI
When the crime in Regent’s Park was referred to the Commissioner’s Office, the case was immediately handed over to Chief Inspector Macdonald for investigation. Macdonald, when he heard the brief salient facts, said:
“Well—that’s an unusual story: murder isn’t uncommon, but murder in the presence of witnesses is quite uncommon. In the circumstances I’ll finish off this report and get it done with. Tell the Regent’s Park fellows I’ll be with them shortly. Meantime, they can carry on.”
So it came about that Inspector Wright, much to his own private satisfaction, was able to continue the job by interrogating the second witness of the crime—he whom Bruce Mallaig had described as the “bridge man.”
“Stanley Claydon, aged twenty-eight, address 115a Euston Passage. Discharged as un
