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That's right.
Let's see, he sent for me
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to see the text
right after we left Belgrade.
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And then he went...
Yeah, it was the last I ever saw of him.
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Were there any other
threatening letters?
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Yeah, but none that
I was allowed to read.
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He used to... He used to burn them.
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That explains...
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What?
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My interest in hatboxes.
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Precisely what I needed.
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Doctor, first the wounds.
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- You counted a dozen?
- Yes.
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Five are deep,
of which three are lethal.
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The rest are shallow.
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And two...
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...are so slight as to be
mere scratches.
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What does that suggest?
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That there were two murderers,
a strong man and a weak man?
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Or a weak woman.
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Or a strong man stabbing
the victim both strongly
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and weakly in order to confuse us.
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At least we know that
by the time of the murder,
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Ratchett was too drugged to cry out
or defend himself with this.
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But how did you guess...?
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I didn't. He showed it to me
when he offered me $15,000
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to be his bodyguard and I refused.
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Ought I to have accepted?
:44:40
Now, let us consider the ashtray.
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Two different matches.
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A smoked cigar.
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- A pipe cleaner...
- And this.
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- The initial H.
- That should not be hard to identify.
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I wonder, Christian name or surname?