Phryne and Jack in “Raisins and Almonds”

What evidence do you have that it was me who broke into the bookshop?

An Hispano-Suiza parked outside at the time.

If a tree falls in a forest...

You were very likely somewhere close by wielding the axe.

Well... I didn’t break the window. That was done by a man in a black trench coat with a hat – the same man who attacked me when I tried to stop him stealing a book.

He attacked you?

Well, I disturbed him. And he ran off with the book. I gave chase, and he took a shot at me, so I did the only thing I could in the circumstances.

You called for help?

I stabbed him in the shoulder.

Oh.