Philo Vance

And I'm equally certain a certain Mr. William Bartlett will never forgive you for it.

Do you need 20, Ellen?

Well, Bartlett said he'd never met Zachary.

Yet he knew where the kitchen of the Zachary house was.

Remember his telling Heath where to get a glass of water when Mrs. Zachary almost fainted?

No, but it made it obvious that he and the murdered man had been meeting here.

And if they had been meeting here, it might be that they had met at Bartlett's Lodge.

It might still further be that the shiny key Zachary had was the key to the front door of the lodge.

It was, even though Bartlett tried to throw me off with a new lock.

Yes, you did.

You know, someday, Ellen, our little enterprise here will be reading Vance and Deering, private investigators.

I can see it just as plain.