CHAPTER IV

FRENCH MAKES A START “I SHOULD like to introduce you to Major Bentley, our chief constable,” said Sergeant Golightly to French as they left the courthouse. The major was a small dark man with a rather Jewish cast of countenance. French had noticed him come in late to the inquest and had imagined he was a police official. “I was talking over this affair with the superintendent this morning,” the major began. “He’s knocked up at present and I went to his house. That’s why you haven’t met him. In the absence of comple…