Chapter 18
IT OCCURRED TO MR. CAMPIONM
R. VICK had installed his telephone in a small pantry at the back of the barber’s shop, choosing it, no doubt, because his butterfly mind had noted that it was about the same size as a public booth. Since the cupboard was also used to store certain unguents and as a hide for the charwoman’s equipment, it was not entirely satisfactory.
The uniformed Inspector making an interim report to his headquarters was forced to stand with one foot in a pail and his eyes on a level with rows of bottles of hair restorer, an expedient irritating to any man as bald as he.
“To return to the subject of the car. A Lagonda, details as previously stated,” he was saying carefully. “It is drawn up outside the shop here, as given in my preliminary message. The boot is un
