Death on the Air: and other stories. Ngaio Marsh

he tell you about that?’

      ‘She whispered something to me this morning. I’m very fond of Phips. My God, are you sure of your grounds?’

      ‘Yes,’ said Alleyn. ‘I’m sorry. I think you’d better go, Meadows.’

      ‘Are you going to arrest him?’

      ‘I have to do my job.’

      There was a long silence.

      ‘Yes,’ said Dr Meadows at last. ‘You have to do your job. Goodbye, Alleyn.’

      Fox returned to say that Guy and Arthur had never left their parties. He had got hold of two of their friends. Guy and Mrs Tonks confirmed the story of the locked door.

      ‘It’s a process of elimination,’ said Fox. ‘It must be the secretary. He fixed the radio while deceased was upstairs. He must have dodged back to whisper through the door to Miss Tonks. I suppose he waited somewhere down here until he heard deceased blow himself to blazes and then put everything straight again, leaving the radio turned on.’