“What about them?”
“One bath-towel,” I said, “two hand-towels.”
“Well?”
“Standard equipment is two bath-towels and two hand-towels. What happened to the other bath-towel?”
“Hell, I don’t know,” Sellers said. “It’s not up to us to go around checking linen.”
I said, “The murderer had been wounded, and the murderer wrapped a bath-towel around the wound to stop the bleeding. It probably didn’t bleed too much, but that’s what the bath-towel was used for.”
Sellers said, “It’s a wild theory, Lam. Just a wild, wild theory.”
“Sure, it is, but it’s worth investigating.”
“You’re damn right it’s worth investigating,” Bertha Cool said. “Think of what it does to the insurance company, Frank.”
“How come?” Sellers asked.