‘Easiest thing in the world,’ said the inspector, with serious interest, ‘to drown a person in the bath. I wonder more murderers don’t do it. No incriminating weapon, no marks of violence, nothing but the body, which you don’t even have the trouble of getting rid of, because there’s always a big chance of the coroner’s jury bringing in a verdict of Accidental Death. For that’s usually the bother in a murder, sir,’ he went on, warming to the subject in whole-hearted fashion, ‘what the ’ell to do with the corpse.
