Miss Dinmont is intelligent and shrewd, and although she, too, believes Lamont is guilty of murder at first, she travels from Scotland to London to attend his trial and hear the evidence for herself. When he’s injured, it’s Miss Dinmont who looks after him until he’s well enough for Grant to return with him to London. She’s a nurse who is visiting her family’s home in Scotland during Lamont’s stay there. Everett is a very interesting character who knows more than she says at first, and plays a role in Grant’s search for the truth. For instance, Sorrell and Lamont’s landlady Mrs. There are several other interesting characters in the novel, too. And we can respect his perseverance when, even after Lamont’s trial has begun, Grant keeps searching for the truth. It’s easy to admire a police detective who’s so determined to get at the truth and in fact, Grant is much harder on himself than anyone else is on him. The feeling that there was something wrong somewhere always flowed back the minute he stopped bullying himself.”
“What had he left undone? What possible avenue of exploration had he left untravelled? He tried deliberately to stop himself from further questioning, to accept the general theory that the police case was too good to be other than true…But it was no use. When he realises that he may have arrested the wrong person for the crime, we see how upset he is and how the crime continues to haunt him. Tthis novel has a set of interesting characters, especially the character of Alan Grant. So Grant will have to act fast if he’s going to find out the truth in time to save Lamont. By this time, too, Lamont’s been charged with murder and his trial’s coming up. Now he has to go back over the case from the beginning to see what he missed and find out who really killed Albert Sorrell and why. By the time their return journey ends, Grant begins to believe he may have the wrong man. Grant, who has no desire to imprison or execute an innocent man, agrees to hear Lamont out. On the way back to London, Lamont claims that he’s innocent, but that he knows no-one will believe him. So Grant becomes quite certain that Lamont’s the murderer – especially when Lamont disappears.Grant traces Lamont to Scotland where he catches the suspect. Furthermore, evidence shows that Sorrell’s killer was left-handed (which Lamont is) and probably cut himself with the murder weapon (Lamont’s got a wound in the place where the killer would have been injured). Several witnesses claim that Lamont had joined the crowd and that he and Sorrell had had an argument. The evidence that Grant gradually finds seems to show that Lamont was Sorrell’s killer. Before long, Grant discovers that the dead man was small-time bookmaker Albert Sorrell, who shared lodgings with Jerry Lamont, another bookmaker.
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