6. INSPECTOR GRANGER ARRIVED AT ABOUT 9.00 CAME IN. HE
WAS A TALL MAN WITH A BIG BLACK MOUSTACHE. AMANDA,
BARBARA, CLAUDIA, AND GORDON WERE IN THE LIVING ROOM.
THE INSPECTOR CAME IN.
7. “MR TRAVERS DIED
BETWEEN MIDNIGHT LAST
NIGHT AND SEVEN O’CLOCK
THIS MORNING” HE SAID.
“SOMEBODY IN THIS ROOM
KILLED HIM”. HE LOOKED AT
THEM ONE BY ONE BUT
NOBODY SPOKE.
“MRS TRAVERS, I WANT TO
TALK TO YOU FIRST. COME
INTO THE LIBRARY WITH ME,
PLEASE”
AMANDA TRAVERS
FOLLOWED THE INSPECTOR
INTO THE LIBRARY AND THEY
SAT DOWN.
8. “WHAT DID YOUR
HUSBAND DO AFTER
DINNER LAST NIGHT ?”
“WHEN WE FINISHED
DINNER JEREMY SAID HE
WAS TIRED AND HE
WENT TO BED”
“DID YOU GO TO BED
THEN?”
“NO, I DIDN’T. I WENT
FOR A WALK IN THE
GARDEN”.
“WHAT TIME DID YOU
GO TO BED?”
“ABOUT QUARTER TO
TWELVE”
10. “YES, I HEAR JEREMY’S
BEDROOM DOOR. IT
OPENED. I THOUGH IT
WAS JEREMY. THEN
CLOSED AGAIN. I
READ IN BED FOR
HALF AN HOUR AND
THEN I WENT TO
SLEEP.
“WHAT TIME DID YOU
GET UP THIS
MORNING?”
11. “I GOT UP AT ABOUT 7.15. I
HAD BREAKFAST AT 8.00 I
TOOK MY HUSBAND A CUP
OF TEA. I FOUND HIM IN
BED. HE WAS… DEAD.
“TELL ME, MRS TRAVERS,
DID YOU LOVE YOUR
HUSBAND?”
“JEREMY IS… WAS A
DIFFICULT MAN”
“BUT DID YOU LOVE HIM,
MRS TRAVERS?”
“NO, INSPECTOR. I HATED
HIM”
13. “WHAT DID YOU DO
AFTER DINNER
YESTERDAY EVENING?”
“AFTER DINNER? I
PLAYED CARDS WITH
GORDON, AND THEN I
WENT TO BED”
“WHAT TIME WAS THAT?”
“IT WAS ABOUT HALF
PAST ELEVEN.
I REMEMBER I LOOKED
AT MY WATCH”
14. “DID YOU HEAR ANYTHING
IN YOUR FATHER’S ROOM?
“NO. I DIDN’T HEAR
ANYTHING”
“DID YOU HAVE ANY
PROBLEMS WITH YOUR
FATHER?”
“NO, NO PROBLEMS AT ALL.
MY FATHER WAS A
WONDERFUL MAN AND A
PERFECT FATHER”
“THANK YOU, MRS TRAVERS”
16. “WHAT DID YOU DO AFTER
DINNER, GORDON?”
“I PLAYED CARDS WITH
BARBARA. THEN SHE WENT
TO BED”
“DID YOU GO TO BED THEN?”
“NO. I STAYED IN THE SITTING
ROOM AND I HAD A GLASS
OF WHISKY. THEN I WENT TO
BED”
“WHAT TIME WAS THAT?”
“I DONT REMEMBER EXACTLY.
I DIDN’T LOOK AT THE TIME”
17. “DID YOU HEAR
ANYTHING DURING THE
NIGHT?”
“NO, I DIDN’T. I WAS
VERY TIRED. I SLEPT
VERY WELL”
“YOU AND MR TRAVERS
WERE BUSINESS
PARTNERS, WEREN’T
YOU?”
“YES, THAT’S RIGHT”
18. “AND IT’S A VERY
GOOD BUSINESS
MAN I
UNDERSTAND”
“YES, INSPECTOR, IT
IS”
“AND NOW IT IS
YOUR BUSINESS”
“LISTEN,
INSPECTOR, I DID
NOT KILL JEREMY.
HE WAS MY
PARTENER AND HE
WAS MY FRIEND”
20. “DID YOU HEAR ANYTHING?”
“YES. I HEARD SOMEBODY GO INTO
JEREMY’S ROOM. IT WAS ABOUT 12.00
“WHO WAS IT?”
“IT WAS, AMANDA, HIS WIFE”
“ARE YOU SURE? DID YOU SEE HER?”
“WILL NO, I DIDNT SEE HER. BUT I’M
SURE IT WAS AMANDA”
“YOU WERE MR TRAVER’S SECRETARY,
CLAUDIA”
“YES, I WAS”
“WERE YOU JUST HIS SECRETARY?”
“WHAT DID YOU MEAN?”
21. “WERE YOU IN LOVE WITH MR
TRAVERS?”
“NO, I WASN’T”
“THE TRUTH PLEASE, CLAUDIA”
“VERY WELL, INSPECTOR. YES, I
WAS IN LOVE WITH HIM AND HE
SAID HE WAS IN LOVE WITH ME.
HE SAID HE WANTED TO LEAVE
HIS WIFE-AMANDA- AND MARRY
ME. I WAS STUPID I BELIEVED
HIM. HE USED ME, INSPECTOR! I
WAS VERY ANGRY WITH HIM”
“DID YOU KILL HIM?”
“NO, INSPECTOR, I LOVED
JEREMY”
22. BEFORE DINNER, GORDON HAD A DRINK WITH JEREMY IN THE LIBRARY
“CHEERS, JEREMY HAPPY BIRTHDAY.
“AH, THANKS, GORDON”
“LISTEN, JEREMY, I WANT TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT
BARBARA”
“BARBARA? WHAT’S THE PROBLEM?”
23. “IT’S NOT EXACTLY A PROBLEM. I’M IN LOVE WITH HER, AND I
WANT TO MARRY HER”
“MARRY BARBARA? MARRY MY DAUGHTER! ARE YOU CRAZY? NEVER.
YOU DON’T LOVE BARBARA. YOU ONLY WANT HER MONEY!”
“THAT’S NOT TRUE, JEREMY. I LOVE HER”
24. “LISTEN TO ME. IF YOU MARRY BARBARA, WHEN I DIED ALL MY
MONEY GOES TO CLAUDIA”
“TO CLAUDIA? TO YOUR SECRETARY?”
“YES”
“IS THAT YOUR LAST WORD, JEREMY?”
“YES, IT IS”
DINNER EVERYBODY!-AMANDA SAID
25. AT MIDNIGHT GORDON FINISHED HIS WISKY
AND WENT UPSTAIRS
WHO IS IT? GORDON?
