The Birth of Venus

The Birth of Venus
"Erroneously i imagined some personal reason. "Not at all!The letters were sent to me because the essence of your planwas that one of them should be wrongly addressed an go astray-but you cannotarrange for a letter addressed to the Criminal Investigation Department ofScotland Yard to go astray!It is necessary to have a private address.Youchose me as a fairly well-known person，and a person who was sure to takethe letters to the police-and also，in your rather insular mind，you enjoyedscoring off a foreigner. "You addressed your envelope very cleverly-Whitehaven-Whitehorse-quite anatural slip.Only Hastings was sufficiently perspicacious to disregardsubtleties and go straight for the obvious!
The Birth of Venus
"Of course the letter was meant to go astray!The police were to be seton the trail only when the murder was safely over.Your brother's nightlywalk provided you with the opportunity.And so successfully had the A B Cterror taken hold on the public mind that the possibility of your guiltnever occurred to anyone. "After the death of your brother，of course，your object wasaccomplished.You had no wish to commit any more murders.On the other hand，if the murders stopped without reason，a suspicion of the truth might cometo someone.
The Birth of Venus