The Man in Lower TenWhen a man is murdered in his berth aboard a train, the clues point to three completely different suspects. |
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Page 1 - MCKNIGHT is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business. I never liked it, and since the strange case of the man in lower ten, I have been a bit squeamish. Given a case like that...
Page 53 - The Detective Story," so she parodies the detective himself in the character of Wilson Budd Hotchkiss. Hotchkiss is an altogether disinterested person; he involves himself in the murder in Lower 10 for intellectual reasons alone. As he tells Blakely, "I use the inductive method originated by Poe and followed since with such success by Conan Doyle