The Oblong Room

"Captain Leopold joins his Sergeant to investigate an open and shut case of murder in the college hostel. Ralph Rollings has been found stabbed to death. His roommate Tom McBern was found enclosed with the dead man for 24 hours and he is not willing to make a statement. The only thing they need to convict Tom is a motive and the whole investigation is based on finding that motive." (Arun Kumar)

A non-speculative story of obsession and religion. First published in The Saint Magazine, July 1967. Reprinted as "Death in the Oblong Room" in the men's magazine Adam (Australia), January, 1974.