Solution—Incident of the Exhibitionistic Corpse

Had Mado stood on the table straddling the opening made by the missing leaves as she would have had to do, had she hanged herself, the table would have been scratched by her high heels. The only marks on it, however, were her fingerprints and the wax, proving the table had been placed in position after she had been hanged.

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MEN ARE OF NECESSITY SO MAD, THAT NOT TO BE MAD, WERE MADNESS IN ANOTHER FORM.

—Pascal