Crime and Mr. Campion

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1937 Original Publisher: Doubleday Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: He made the call from the house, leaving the doctor to keep an eye on the studio where the body lay. "The room is practically untouched," he said. "I thought you'd probably like to come along right away. Yes, I've got the doctor here. ... He doesn't seem to know . . . talks about gas." Stanislaus's usually weary voice sounded brisk, almost excited. "Good for you, Campion. Hold everything till I get there. I knew something like this would happen. Is the girl about?" Mr. Campion passed a hand over his forehead. "Look here," he said, "I can't argue over the phone." "You don't have to," said Oates, who seemed to be positively elated by the gruesome news. "I'll be over in ten minutes." He rang off. 13 : Police Work While the discovery that Linda was away in Paris and had been there for several days pursuing her own line of investigation shook the inspector's conviction of her guilt in the second outrage at Little Venice, it did not completely dispel it by any means. He was set back rather than defeated, and retained an official reticence until the facts should be assembled and his theory triumphantly proved. Dr. Fettes repeated his opinion that Mrs. Potter's death was due to asphyxia and refused to say more until after the post-mortem. Belle retired to the house with Lisa, and the forlorn little studio was left in charge of the police. Mr. Campion was there, silent, observant, and marvellously unobtrusive, while the dreadful formalities were accomplished. In the beginning Oates was nearly as cheerful as his personality permitted. Here, experience told him, was an e...