“It’s further interesting, because the victim is a great and good man, in fact, the President-elect of the University of Corinth.”
“My! Somebody didn’t want him for president? That the idea?”
“Apparently not. Nothing in the letter about that.”
“Who wrote the letter?”
“The relative who inherits the whole estate.”
“He do the job?”
“No reason as yet to think so. But the criminal mustn’t be guessed at. The point is, the locked room.”
“How was the killing done?”
“Stabbed. No weapon found and no way to get in or out of the locked room. Fine problem.”
“Yes—if we don’t find a secret stairway—or, a lying servant. Such cases generally fizzle out that way.”