Daily Casefile · Forensic
The Linwood Mausoleum
≈ 6 min
At 06:10 on Monday the cemetery gardener at Linwood found the door of the Garber family mausoleum standing open. Inside, laid out on the flagstones, was the body of Mr. Edgar Mead, a tea-importer from the city, dead at least thirty hours. Mead had no business at Linwood; the Garbers had been gone from town for a fortnight. Six events make up the story between Mead's last known evening and the gardener's morning round. The pathologist, the post office, and a forced car-boot give the four threads that pin them. Put them in order.
The scene
Linwood Cemetery, on the city's south side — March 1948
The events
- The body is carried into the Garber mausoleum and the door pulled to
- The gardener finds the mausoleum door ajar at first light
- Mead is struck on the back of the head with a brass candlestick
- A typed letter is dropped into the Linwood pillar-box
- The body is carried out and laid in the boot of a car
- Mead takes brandy with an associate in his study
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