Was his being there purely coincidence? I wondered about it now. Funny how you tend to give friends an automatic benefit of a doubt. I was now feeling suspicions about everyone.
I thought of how much strength it would have taken to hoist another man's body up in order to make it appear as though he had hung himself. That was the other thing this all hinged on. I certainly wouldn't be able to do it. It would take a rather large person with upper body strength to do this. My sense was that Smith was our killer, but I now wondered if they didn't have help.
Motive was only one-third of the puzzle. Means was another one-third. Opportunity was the last piece to fit into the whole jig-saw puzzle. Setting aside motive for the time being, my attention was now on means. Since Jimmy Bean was such a
