Nighthawks Hopper

Pickington, Marble Head, Connecticut. La Comtesse de Beauville, Les Sapins, St.Germain en Laye. Miss Jane Marple, St Mary Stead, Much Benham. Colonel Luscombe, LittleGreen, Suffolk. Mrs. Carpenter, The Hon. Elvira Blake. Canon Pennyfather, The Close,Chadminster. Mrs. Holding, Miss Holding, Miss Audrey Holding, The Manor House, Carmanton.Mr. and Mrs. Ryesville, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. The Duke of Barnstable, Doone Castle,N. Devon…. A cross section of the kind of people who stayed atBertram's Hotel. They formed, he thought, a kind of pattern…
　　As he shut the book, a name on an earlier pagecaught his eye. Sir William Ludgrove.
　　Mr. Justice Ludgrove who had been recognised by aprobation officer near the scene of a bank robbery. Mr. Justice Ludgrove – Canon Pennyfather – both patrons of Bertram'sHotel…