Solution—Affair of the Left-Handed Victim

Warwick said nothing had been touched until the police arrived. Both guns were “carefully wrapped and handled” by the police, yet Fordney found tobacco in Gilmore’s gun barrel! As a fired bullet cleans the barrel of everything but traces of its own passage, the Professor knew Anita and Warwick were lying about the affair. Warwick was convicted of manslaughter; Anita acquitted.

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FALSEHOOD AVAILS ITSELF OF HASTE AND UNCERTAINTY.

—Tacitus