Inspector Hornleigh1939
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Inspector Hornleigh is a fictional British detective from Scotland Yard, the chief protagonist of a popular BBC radio series of the 1930s, Inspector Hornleigh Investigates, devised by Hans Priwin and played by actor S. J. Warmington. The series ran … more »
Sergeant Bingham:
I wonder what he was?
Inspector Hornleigh:
Hotel porter
Sergeant Bingham:
Ah, hotel porter? I thought that [pause] How do you know?
Inspector Hornleigh:
This piece of chalk. It's got blacking on it. He used it to chalk the room numbers on the boots he cleaned. See?
Sergeant Bingham:
Oh, marvelous! All life's problems solved.
Inspector Hornleigh:
Well, I have been wrong...
Sergeant Bingham:
Last week's football pools for instance?
Inspector Hornleigh:
That! Why the whole of Scotland Yard couldn't deduce what Chelsea will do next!
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