CHAPTER ELEVENInspector Bull had the feeling that crime would be much simpler if women were kept out of it. He viewed female encroachment in all branches of life as deplorable in the extreme. His general attitude was that no good could come of it, and to prove his point he told the story of a friend of his who asked a Metropolitan policewoman at Trafalgar-square the way to Adelphi and was misdirected. The Navy and the street-cleaning department were the only branches of human activity that were free of them. He often thought of joining the Navy for that reason. He didn’t because he was always seasick when he made the channel crossing and his wife never was.
Bull felt that his present case would be much simpler if it weren’t swirling around the complicated mental and emotional states of Ag
