well,that was a surprise, the Chief Inspector said.
Do you think the Langley-Smythes will mack trouble?
asked Jeffreys.
I don't think so.'
Langley-Smythe's family had been told that it was better to do nothing more about the murder. Cippola would not be able to pay them any money. He didn't have any. And if the newspapers got hold of the story, everyone would know what Langley-Smythe had been doing.
The nice girl from the Consulate had brought the English detectives two plane tickets.
WE thought you'd want to go home tonight because it's Chrismtamas Eve, she said. The body will travel back later.
Before they left, Jeffreys telephone Carabiniere Bacci. About that gun, he said. I thinks you talk to the litter girt with the pink toy gun.