The Opening Door

<p>A red STICKINESS partly coagulated on the hand of a child of five…</p><p>A BROWN STAIN carried to a hall carpet from a pool of blood under a dead woman in a park…</p><p>A three-cornered FRAGMENT torn from a photograph…</p><p>A GOLF BAG carried up fire escapes and over roofs in December…</p><p>A MORPHINE COCKTAIL which shows murder can be anybody’s game…</p><p>A pair of practically new OXFORDS reposing in the brook…</p><p>A CHEST containing a handful of yellow CLOTH and pink STONES which Charlotte took from the bank the day before she died…</p><p>A DIRTY PINK BEAD for which Susan searched her house inch by inch…</p><p>An open CISTERN in a third-floor tank room beside which lies one white SLIPPER…</p><p>A TINY SHRED of GREEN STUFF invisible to the naked eye....</p>