“No, nothing strange. Nothing more than we both read in the paper.”
“The newspaper’s opinions are not important. The police say that this mystery cannot be solved. It is too strange. But that is why we can solve it.”
“First, the police do not know why the women were killed. Also, they cannot understand why two voices were heard upstairs. Nobody was, it seems, up there except the dead Mademoiselle L’Espanaye. Then there is the other information: there was no exit; the room was in great disorder; the daughter’s body was up the chimney; the old lady was attacked in a terrible way.
