‘I see no connection.’
‘No, but you saw his hands. You observed their size and you noticed how tightly he could grasp my own hands. I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, but even I could feel the immense pressure which he exerted in his grip and I struggled to match it. If those powerful hands had been around the throat of Eliza Lanyon then they would have succeeded in choking the life out of her without any effort at all. In those circumstances, Watson, there would no possibility of the girl being alive when her body was discovered and there would be no scope for her to utter a single word with her dying breaths.’
I held up a finger. ‘One moment! If you were convinced of Carver’s innocence because of the strength of his grip, how do you explain the fact that she was alive when she w
