The Kindness of Strangers

Tuesday, June 9, 1953

“We’ll have to see what Robbie says,” said Honor. “I mean, we must assume his fingerprints are on the gun.”

“And if we wipe it,” said George thoughtfully, “we’ll also remove—”

“Precisely. But, darling, I mean it: You only have to say the word, and I’ll drop the idea.

Apart from anything else, to kill a man in order to fend off suspicion for a different man’s death…

well, in Agatha Christie stories, the so-called auxiliary murder is usually the key to the villain’s downfall. ”

George laughed. “This is real life, not a story written to a formula. And what’s the alternative? We sit back and let Saul be tried for murder—even hanged? No. I couldn’t live with myself. And neither could you.”