Danny McG
Lid closed, monkey dead.
Okay peeps, mega spoilers alert for this thread!
I read it in an anthology a long long time ago, I remember about three quarters of the plot but I can't recall the conclusion.
Two men sharing a flat in London, one a small travelling salesman for a fancy relish company, the other some kind of thinker.
A woman has disappeared while living in a cottage and there's no trace of a body, Scotland Yard are baffled. She lived with a vegetarian and, (for some not important reason) the police have watched this cottage for a while, before and after her disappearance.
The suspect has cut down loads of larch trees around the cottage and put the logs into stacks, he has a knife and an axe and a stove but early forensics show he hadn't cut her up and burned her.
He had two bottles of the select relish and this intrigues the salesman.
His deep thinker roomie gets him to take a trip to the possibile murder scene and have a look and report back.
Based on the findings he then solves it
How?
Has anyone else ever read it?
If you don't want to reveal in here then inbox me.
I don't particularly want to track down and buy the anthology just to help me recall a bit of the plot from one little story I read forty plus years ago
Cheers
I read it in an anthology a long long time ago, I remember about three quarters of the plot but I can't recall the conclusion.
Two men sharing a flat in London, one a small travelling salesman for a fancy relish company, the other some kind of thinker.
A woman has disappeared while living in a cottage and there's no trace of a body, Scotland Yard are baffled. She lived with a vegetarian and, (for some not important reason) the police have watched this cottage for a while, before and after her disappearance.
The suspect has cut down loads of larch trees around the cottage and put the logs into stacks, he has a knife and an axe and a stove but early forensics show he hadn't cut her up and burned her.
He had two bottles of the select relish and this intrigues the salesman.
His deep thinker roomie gets him to take a trip to the possibile murder scene and have a look and report back.
Based on the findings he then solves it
How?
Has anyone else ever read it?
If you don't want to reveal in here then inbox me.
I don't particularly want to track down and buy the anthology just to help me recall a bit of the plot from one little story I read forty plus years ago
Cheers
