Chapter 16 Summary

Ducane goes to Octavian, telling him that McGrath told him that Biranne was often at Radeechy's house. He also says that when McGrath went to Radeechy's office after he heard the shot that Biranne had locked the door from the inside. Ducane says that he noticed something funny in the police photographs of the scene: Radeechy was left-handed but the gun was lying by his right. They discuss what this might mean: Biranne could have moved the gun while checking on Radeechy or Biranne might have killed him and not remembered that Radeechy was left-handed when he went to place the gun. Ducane says that he has gone by the police station and found that the prints on the gun were from Radeechy's left hand and that the gun was fired from close range. Biranne's prints were only on the barrel of the...