Maria Van Aerts reminded her friend Gertrude Oosting of the painting in the Hague museum, unsigned, but of the Florentine school, of the faun with the naked woman. N of Strasbourg. She thought for a moment it was Hossegor 's. Hailstones bounced on the sill like ping-pong balls, and after shutting the window he found some on the floor. According to the passport, Mr. John Perkins had sailed from Halifax six weeks before, landed in Southampton , then entered France via Dieppe. On the other side they could see the Halle aux Vins.
He had been killed by a long needle to the heart, once he'd been rendered unconscious by chloroform. M knew the method, having read about it a few months previously in a German criminological magazine.
Precisely the same crime had been committed at Hamburg six months earlier. One in Sydney took care of the shipping. M noticed Johann Radek 's hands, long hands, astonishingly white and slightly freckled.
They seemed to ware up to the subject too, and to take part in the conversation. Else Anderson said she was the mistress of a sailor called Hans in Copenhagen. She'd met him in Hamburg. Elias Hansen of the Southern Pacific , whose job was to investigate accidents, took the stand. He was certainly of Scandinavian origin.
Jeanne Debul. Staying at Savoy Hotel in London. Lucien Hardoin, Jean Guillot 's friend, was an industrial draftsman. Taller, thinner, several years younger than his friend. Lived in the same house as Guillot, the floor above. She said after the three shots, the car drove away at full speed, in the direction of Rue Norvins. She thought she also came from La Roche-sur-Yon. Three children, youngest 8. She'd known Blanche Lamotte in La Roche-sur-Yon where they went to school together, and had met accidentally in Paris three years ago.
