Wednesday, October 24, 2007

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Decorative painting
"It doesn't make sense,"Franklin Clarke repeated. "Mais si!One must reason-reflect.What would be the object of writingsuch letters?To focus attention on the writer,to call attention to themurders!En Verite,it did not seem to make sense at the first sight.And thenI saw light.It was to focus attention on several murders-on a group ofmurders......Is it not your great Shakespeare who had said "You cannot seethe trees for the wood." I did not correct Poirot's literary reminiscences.I was trying to seehis point.A glimmer came to me.He went on: "When do you notice a pin least?When it is in a pin-cushion!When do younotice an individual murder least?When it is one of a series of relatedmurders.
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"I had to deal with an intensely clever,resourceful murderer-reckless,daring and a thorough gambler.Not Mr Cust!He could never have committedthese murders!No,I had to deal with a very different stamp of man-a manwith a boyish temperament (witness the schoolboy-like letters and therailway guide),and attractive man to women,and a man with ruthlessdisregaard for human life,a man who was necessarily a prominent person inone of the crimes! "Consider when a man or woman is killed,what are the questions that thepolice ask?Opportunity.Where everybody was at the time of the crime?
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