Chapter XV

SHUFFLE THE CARDS AND DEAL AGAIN A hasty consultation with the powers that be at Scotland Yard put Detective-Inspector Parker in charge of the Fentiman case, and he promptly went into consultation with Wimsey. ‘What put you on to this poison business?’ he asked. ‘Aristotle, chiefly,’ replied Wimsey. ‘He says, you know, that one should always prefer the probable impossible to the improbable possible. It was possible, of course, that the General should have died off in that neat way at the most confusing moment. But …