Thursday, August 03, 2006
Inspector Linley is rubbish
He was well off his game tonight. I figured out out miles before he did.
For a start, the murder victim had a wound shaped like a hooked spikey implement. I immediately thought "ice axe". That put the lawyer right in the frame, since he was a keen rock climber and had successfully assaulted Mount Everest. Linley had to wait for the pathologist to produce a suspiciously accurate cast of the wound to figure the same thing out.
Once we found out that the clerk had provided the lawyer with his alibi for the murder-that-happened-a-long-time-ago, we only needed to apply the obligatory twist to the situation i.e. was the clerk providing the alibi for the lawyer, or twisty-wisty, was the lawyer providing the alibi for the clerk?
I solved it in under an hour. It took Linley at least two days, even though Havers nearly got it at one point.
And his car is rubbish.
For a start, the murder victim had a wound shaped like a hooked spikey implement. I immediately thought "ice axe". That put the lawyer right in the frame, since he was a keen rock climber and had successfully assaulted Mount Everest. Linley had to wait for the pathologist to produce a suspiciously accurate cast of the wound to figure the same thing out.
Once we found out that the clerk had provided the lawyer with his alibi for the murder-that-happened-a-long-time-ago, we only needed to apply the obligatory twist to the situation i.e. was the clerk providing the alibi for the lawyer, or twisty-wisty, was the lawyer providing the alibi for the clerk?
I solved it in under an hour. It took Linley at least two days, even though Havers nearly got it at one point.
And his car is rubbish.
# posted by JeremyP : 9:39 pm
