Tubby tried again to interest himself in the book which lay open upon his knee. But once more he found it too deep for him. It was entitled "Murder at Bilbury Manor," and was a whodunit of the more abstruse type, in which everything turns on whether a certain character, by catching the 3:43 train at Hilbury and changing into the 4:16 at Milbury, could have reached Silbury by 5:27, which would have given him just time to disguise himself and be sticking knives into people at Bilbury by 6:38. The detective and his friend had been discussing this question for about forty pages with tremendous animation, but Tubby found himself unable to share their eager enthusiasm.
(from Summer Moonshine, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)
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