Inspector Morse and the Unusual Case of the Giant Walking Banana
Nobody was going to make a monkey out of Morse
Dabble 153 — Cumbrous
Genre — Mystery
Morse had been rapped over the knuckles for avoiding the standard crime scene coveralls. They were cumbrous and made him sweat excessively.
“Well, what have we got, Lewis?” he asked his subordinate.
“Not much, Sir. The gorilla made a real mess of him.”
“You’re right.”
“It would have taken great strength to decapitate the victim by pulling his head off, Lewis.”
“But was it murder or misadventure, Sir?”
“That’s for us to discover, though I’m inclined to believe it’s murder.”
“Why?”
“The costume he’s dressed in. Who’d be stupid enough to enter the gorilla enclosure dressed as a giant banana?”
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