“Yes. I suppose so. It just doesn’t seem real. I mean... I can’t imagine Orlando Flane as a real murderer.”
“He had the best motive I’ve come to yet.”
“But a lot of other people didn’t like Mr Ufferlitz.”
Simon nodded. It was true, of course.
“I hear that Jack Groom didn’t like him either. Do you know why that was?”
She shook her head.
“I haven’t any idea.”
“Was it on account of April Quest, by any chance?”
“I don’t know.” The girl studied him shrewdly. “Are you rather interested in that?”
“Very much,” said the Saint calmly. “It’s the only other angle that doesn’t seem to have been gone into yet, and it’s a good traditional motive. What sort of a guy was Ufferlitz with women?”