1:09:01
The phone gimmick,
working late in the office.
1:09:04
- Brilliant.
- Are you awarding gold medals?
1:09:06
Yes! For the first one,
not for the second one. That was sloppy.
1:09:12
Mrs Melville, she'd have been disappointed.
1:09:14
Get to the climax. You're talking to a writer.
1:09:17
Am I? That's not what I heard.
1:09:19
And that's the key, that you're not a writer.
1:09:23
When Mrs Ferris told me
you didn't contribute to the writing,
1:09:26
that her husband did all the work...
1:09:29
- That's a lie.
...I had to say to myself,
1:09:31
"How could a man with no talent for
mysteries make up such a clever murder?"
1:09:35
If you were that ingenious,
you'd be able to write your own books.
1:09:41
Go ahead. I'm fascinated,
as boring as it may be.
1:09:44
Then I got it. The first one, the clever one,
that wasn't yours.
1:09:50
The second one,
the sloppy one, that was yours.
1:09:54
- But not the first.
- Oh? And whose idea was that, then?
1:10:00
Your partner's. Had to be.
1:10:03
And his wife told me
how conscientious he was.
1:10:06
The way he used to write down ideas
on odd scraps of paper, backs of matches...
1:10:10
Ah! So that's why
you wouldn't let the movers in.
1:10:13
I had to rummage around here
before they emptied everything out.
1:10:17
Is this your partner's handwriting?
1:10:20
I think I can prove it is.
Maybe I ought to read this to you.
1:10:25
"Idea for a Melville book, perfect alibi."
1:10:28
"A wants to kill B. Drives B to a remote
house and has him call his wife in city."
1:10:34
"Tells her he's working late
at the office. Bang, bang."
1:10:40
Sound familiar? That's the part you used.
1:10:44
Practically word for word.
1:10:46
Should I read some more?
1:10:48
- No.
- (Door opens)
1:10:51
Officer. With this,
I think I got a conviction, don't you?