us no nearer to answering that eternal
question--'Who?'"

With a deep sigh the troubled young special investigator reached for the
"Time Table" he had drafted from his notes made during the grisly
replaying of the "death hand at bridge," and scanned it again:

5:20--Flora Miles, dummy, Table No. 1, leaves living room to
telephone.

5:22--Clive Hammond arrives and goes directly into solarium.

5:23--End of rubber at Table No. 1. Players: Polly Beale, Janet
Raymond, Lois Dunlap, Flora Miles (dummy). Polly Beale leaves
living room to join Clive Hammond in solarium.

5:24--Janet Raymond leaves room; says she went straight to front
porch.

5:25--Tracey Miles parks car at curb; walks up to the house, hangs
up hat in clothes closet and at (his estimate)

5:27--Miles enters living room, talks with Nita, who, as dummy, has
just laid down her cards at Table No. 2. Players: Karen Marshall,
Penny Crain, Carolyn Drake.

5:28--Nita leaves living room, goes to her bedroom to make up.

5:28-1/2--Lois Dunlap and Miles go into dining room, Miles to make
cocktails.

5:31--Judge Marshall enters living room, interrupts bridge game.

5:33--John C. Drake enters living room, having walked from Country
Club, which he says he left at 5:10, and which is only
three-quarters of a mile from the Selim house.

5:36--Karen finishes playing of hand, and Dexter Sprague and Janet
Raymond enter from front porch, proceeding into dining room.

5:37--Penny Crain finishes scoring, and Karen leaves room to tell
Nita the score.

5:38--Karen screams upon discovering the dead body at the
dressing-table.

Dundee laid aside the typed sheet and reached for another, the typing of
which was perfect, since Penny's efficient fingers had manipulated the
keys.

When he had telephoned to the office just before five o'clock Monday
afternoon to see if anything had come up, Dundee had learned from Penny
that Peter Dunlap had issued an informal call to "the crowd" for a
meeting at his home that evening.

"You're going, of course?" Dundee had asked. "Then, during the
discussion of the case, I wish you'd try to get the answers to some
questions which need clearing up--if you can do so without getting
yourself 'in Dutch' with your friends.... Fine! Got a pencil?... Here
goes!"

And now he was re-reading the "report" she had consc