THE BORDER-LINE CASEDATE: Aug. 8, 1933.
VENUE: London.
OFFICIALS: Chief Detective Inspector Stanislaus Oates of the Central Division of the Criminal Investigation Department, Scotland Yard.
PRIVATE NOTES: My first "armchair" investigation.
Extraordinary blind spot in Oates's mentality where women are concerned.
Sorry for the girl.
The Border-Line Case
It was so hot in London that night we slept with the wide skylight in our city studio open and let the soot-blacks fall in on us willingly, so long as they brought with them a single stirring breath to move the stifling air. Heat hung on the dark horizons and beneath our particular bowl of sky the city fidgeted, breathless and uncomfortable.
The early editions of the evening papers carried the story of the murder. I read it when the
