“Got any ideas yourself?”
“I’ll tell ’em presently. What about the men?”
“Well, Joel had a motive if his brother bullied him. But he isn’t the type exactly. There’s plenty of motive for Russell or Allen and plenty of opportunity.”
“They’re the likely ones,” suggested Landis.
“When a rich man is murdered,” grumbled Bernard, “and murdered evidently by somebody in the house, anybody likely to profit is a likely suspect.”
“Stimson hated him!”
“—and admitted it readily!”
“Foxiness!”
“Maybe. There’s Brent, too.”
Landis looked his astonishment.