Closed Ranks“You're not serious, Bert, surely?” asked Madden, following Norris's report on his visit to the Bellhaven home the following morning. “You expect me to believe that a man like Laurence Bellhaven could even be remotely suspected of being the railway murderer, or even worse, that maniac Jack the Ripper? I'm afraid that's even more fanciful than your theory about the Reverend Bowker. I'm beginning to believe that, in the absence of viable suspects or hard evidence, you've started clutching at straws now, Inspector.”
Norris sighed. He'd spent the previous evening at home with Betty and the dogs and, though unable to tell her much without betraying the confidential nature of the case, he'd been able to reveal enough for her to concur with him that any hint of an upper class, well-r
