"A MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT SENT TO SCOTLAND YARD BY THE MASTER OF THE EMMA JANE, FISHING TRAWLER..."
"I have a reputation as a hanging judge, but that is unfair. I have always been strictly just and scrupulous in my summing up of a case."
"I have wanted - let me admit it frankly - to commit a murder myself. I recognized this as the desire of the artist to express himself! I was, or could be, an artist in crime! My imagination, sternly checked by the exigencies of my profession, waxed secretly to colossal force."
[She continues, listing how he determined all of the characters involved were guilty, that the cyanide came from a mention of wasps, and how the gun was hidden between murders and finally used for the suicide.]
"I shall be found, laid neatly on my bed, shot through the forehead in accordance with the record kept by my fellow victims. Times of death cannot be stated with any accuracy by the time our bodies are examined.
When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men.
And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island.
Signed
Lawrence Wargrave"
[...]
[she closes the book, setting it on her lap, and then giving a little applause, like a golf-clap.]
no subject
[she starts to read]
"A MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT SENT TO SCOTLAND YARD BY THE MASTER
OF THE EMMA JANE, FISHING TRAWLER..."
"I have a reputation as a hanging judge, but that is unfair. I have always been
strictly just and scrupulous in my summing up of a case."
"I have wanted - let me admit it frankly - to commit a murder myself. I recognized
this as the desire of the artist to express himself! I was, or could be, an artist in
crime! My imagination, sternly checked by the exigencies of my profession, waxed
secretly to colossal force."
[She continues, listing how he determined all of the characters involved were guilty, that the cyanide came from a mention of wasps, and how the gun was hidden between murders and finally used for the suicide.]
"I shall be found, laid neatly on my bed, shot through the forehead in accordance
with the record kept by my fellow victims. Times of death cannot be stated with
any accuracy by the time our bodies are examined.
When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men.
And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island.
Signed
Lawrence Wargrave"
[...]
[she closes the book, setting it on her lap, and then giving a little applause, like a golf-clap.]
Pachipachi, Saihara-san. You... nearly... got it.