[19. Death Back-Stage]
There were no finger-prints on the gun which killed Claudia Mason. She could not have shot herself in the temple and then wiped off the revolver.
The murderer neglected to get her fingerprints on the gun.
A fool cannot be an actor, though an actor may act a fool’s part. Sophocles.
[20. An Easy Combination]
It would have been impossible for Fellows to have hastily dialed a number in the dark. Try it!
Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops itself. Seneca.
[21. A Modern Knight]
The fact that the bullet was found in the body and the only trace of its firing was the hole in the curtain below the window-sill proved conclusively the shot could not have been fired from within the room.
Rocca entered at the moment his sister shot Chase from outside. Grabbing the gun from her hand, he chivalrously protected her.