Chapter 26
"TELEPHONE to police head-quarters and tell them to send a couple of men as quickly as they can. You can also telephone to the Middlesex Hospital for an ambulance— no, I don't think you need do that," he said after a moment's thought. "Get the police."
He turned the body over on to its back. The waistcoat was wet with blood, and a brief examination told him that the man had been shot at close quarters, for the coat was singed. Switching on the light of the bedside lamp, he put it down by the side of the body and continued his examination. On the man's left hand was an old wrist-watch. The glass was broken and the wrist was bruised, as though it had been struck by some blunt weapon. The watch had stopped at twenty minutes to eight.
Death must have been instantaneous, he though
