The grass all round was speckled with their blood -- little spots like those on trout, but with a kind of tail on each spot, like a tadpole.
Not many people know about White's second career as a crime-scene investigator.
The bottle is then riddled, so that the lees settles in the neck of the wine bottle... Manual riddling is still done for Prestige Cuvées in Champagne... mechanised riddling equipment (a gyropalette) is used instead. (Wikipedia)
For real CSI, of course, he'd look at it and say "This blood has Floraxilifalla fencii pollen in it and there's only one place inside 50 miles that that could come from"
ReplyDeleteIn my day, of course, there was no CSI and we only had the Dr Thorndyke stories to inform us about the four different species of duckweed growing in the ditches of England, i.e "The water in these lungs contain Greater Duckweed and the pond-snail Succinea putris, and there's only one ditch within 50 miles where those grow".
ReplyDeleteKids today have no idea.
Or 112 year old Agatha Christie to use a 60 year old Belgian to tell us how ze young folk carry on.
ReplyDeleteGotta re-read TOaFK... it's been too long.
ReplyDeleteI like the bit about the marsh folk, rumored to have webbed feet and pale bellies, like those of frogs.
Nah. Thanks anyway.
ReplyDeleteI'll just Kipple....