Chapter 29

Mr Campion considered. ‘We’ve got daylight on one or two interesting points,’ he said. ‘In the first place, we know who Mr Datchett is. He’s a blackmailer, though what he had on poor old Swithin Cush is more than I can possibly imagine. I think he must have been a spy in his spare time. Then we’ve placed Mr Barber, but that doesn’t help us any. And last, and most important, we’ve discovered that there is a move on amongst those gentlemen who can be hired for any really unpleasant job. So Simister isn’t working alto…