Death At The Excelsior 8.1.87

Death At The Excelsior by P. G. Wodehouse tells the story of  private investigator Elliot Oakes and his older, wiser boss Paul Snyder. Fiction.

Death At The Excelsior - The whole affair seems to me at the moment of writing quite inexplicable. Assuming that this Captain Gunner was murdered, there appears to have been no motive for the crime whatsoever. I have made careful inquiries about him, and find that he was a man of fifty-five; had spent nearly forty years of his life at sea, the last dozen in command of his own ship; was of a somewhat overbearing disposition, though with a fund of rough humour; had travelled all over the world, and had been an inmate of the Excelsior for about ten months. He had a small annuity, and no other money at all, which disposes of money as the motive for the crime.In my character of James Burton, a retired ship's chandler, I have mixed with the other boarders.

• Death At The Excelsior by P. G. Wodehouse tells the story of  private investigator Elliot Oakes and his older, wiser boss Paul Snyder. Fiction.
• The whole affair seems to me at the moment of writing quite inexplicable.
• Assuming that this Captain Gunner was murdered, there appears to have been no motive for the crime whatsoever.
• I have made careful inquiries about him, and find that he was a man of fifty-five; had spent nearly forty years of his life at sea, the last dozen in command of his own ship.
• I was of a somewhat overbearing disposition, though with a fund of rough humour; had travelled all over the world, and had been an inmate of the Excelsior for about ten months.
• He had a small annuity, and no other money at all, which disposes of money as the motive for the crime.
• In my character of James Burton, a retired ship's chandler, I have mixed with the other boarders.