it would do no harm to take some golf clubs with us.”
Tuppence agreeing, the International Detective Agency was left in the charge of Albert.
Maldon, though a well known residential place, did not cover a large area.
Tommy and Tuppence, making every possible inquiry that ingenuity could suggest, nevertheless drew a complete blank. It was as they were returning to London that a brilliant idea occurred to Tuppence.
“Tommy, why did they put Maldon Surrey on the telegram?”
“Because Maldon is in Surrey, idiot.”
“Idiot yourself—I don’t mean that. If you get a telegram from—Hastings, say, or Torquay, they don’t put the county after it. But from Richmond, they do put Richmond Surrey. That’s because there