Chapter 9

It was the sound of the shot which brought the guard leaping to the road, revolver in hand. He was alive when the police found him two hours later. The van had been driven into a field near the end of the Colnbrook by-pass. He told his fragment of tale, but was dead before the magistrate arrived to take his statement. There were two clues, so attenuated that Superintendent Bliss rejected the one and was baffled by the other. A motor-cycle with sidecar had passed through Colnbrook at five minutes after three. It had…