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"I had to deal with an intensely clever，resourceful murderer-reckless，daring and a thorough gambler.Not Mr Cust!He could never have committedthese murders!No，I had to deal with a very different stamp of man-a manwith a boyish temperament (witness the schoolboy-like letters and therailway guide)，and attractive man to women，and a man with ruthlessdisregaard for human life，a man who was necessarily a prominent person inone of the crimes! "Consider when a man or woman is killed，what are the questions that thepolice ask?Opportunity.Where everybody was at the time of the crime? Motive.Who benefited by the deceased's death?If the motive and theopportunity are fairly obvious，what is a would-be murderer to do?Fake analibi-that is，manipulate time in some way?
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But that is always a hazardousproceeding.Our murderer thought of a more fantastic defence.Creat ahomicidal murderer! "I had now only to review the various crimes and find the possibleguilty person.The Andover crime?The most likely suspect for that was FranzAscher，but I could not imagine Ascher inventing and carrying out such anelaborate scheme，nor could I see him planning a premeditated murder.TheBexhill crime?Donald Fraser was a possibility.He had brains and ability，anda methodical turn of mind.But his motive for killing his sweetheart couldonly be jealousy-and jealousy does not tend to premeditation.
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