Chapter 37

In the Rowley murder case it was the same. Bliss didn't bother to look for the tall, dark man who had been seen in the neighbourhood of Mr. Rowley's house, but scoured London to find an old carpet slipper, the fellow of that which had been left behind in the kitchen of Mr. Rowley's house on the night of the murder. In this case, of course, he was successful; but, as Mr. Mander so often said, it is the exception which proves the rule. * * * * * There appeared in the pages of a popular weekly …