Chapter Thirty-five
Professor Max Schultz commenced his evidence after the luncheon break. He was a dapper, bright-eyed sparrow of a man, with a clear and commanding voice, a receding hairline and a bright blue polka-dotted bow tie protruding from his brown suede coat. He seemed oblivious that the tie clashed with his pink shirt and brown coat, and he reminded Matthew of the archetypal university professor – very intelligent but somehow a little strange.
‘Perhaps, Professor,’ Del Assandro asked after the witness had given the bulk of his evidence, ‘you could tell the court in layman’s terms just what anaphylactic shock is, and how it causes death?’
‘It’s quite fascinating, really,’ Schultz replied eagerly. ‘When a subject has sensitivity to insect stings, or grass pollens, or chemicals
