“Miss Larson’s block of flats is at 45 Pond Street. It has two floors and there are two flats on each floor. Mary lives on the first floor. The flat next to hers belongs to a couple, the Smiths. Last night between 10 and 11 o’clock, Mr Smith was watching the football match on TV and his wife was talking on the phone with her mother. The TV was loud so they didn’t hear a thing. They went to bed when the match finished, at 11.15. The flat above Mary’s belongs to a student, called Peter Brad. Yesterday, he left his flat at 5 o’clock and went to his girlfriend’s. He says they were driving to some friends at the time of the burglary. He came back home after midnight. Finally, the last flat belongs to a family, the Robinsons. Mr Robinson is a taxi driver and he was working last night. Mrs. Robinson had finished cooking and she was checking her students’ writing. She’s a teacher. Their daughter, Pam, was listening to music on her Discman in her room. She was wearing earphones so she didn’t hear anything strange. Unfortunately, sir, we didn’t manage to learn anything useful from the neighbours.”