“How do they have it figured out?”
“Holcomb figured it two ways. Once he figured that Tidings was shot in the bungalow, and once he figured he was shot in the automobile and the body dragged into the bungalow.”
“How do you figure it?”
“I figure he was shot in the automobile and came into the apartment under his own power — probably with quite a bit of assistance. He died practically as soon as he was stretched out on the bed… Funny thing, Paul, about his shoes.”
“What’s funny about them?”
“They weren’t on.”
“Well, a man wouldn’t get into bed with his shoes on.”
“A dying man wouldn’t stop to take his shoes off. If someone was helping him in, that someone would hardly think to take the shoes off — unless it happened to be a woman.”
“Something to that,” Drake agreed.
“The boys from the Homicide Squad couldn’t find those shoes,” Mason said. “I looked around for ’em myself when I was in there. I didn’t see them in the closet, and didn’t see them under the bed.”