after-identification

Updated: May 10, 2025

I paid the rent in advance and since I dropped all the eccentricities I had assumed to support the character of Gathercole, I must have impressed the owner, who took me without references. "I had several suits of new clothes made, not in London," he smiled, "but in Manchester, and again I made myself as trim as possible to avoid after-identification.

Edgar Wallace - The Clue of the Twisted Candle