1 {scene: Pleydell-Smith's office in Kingston, Jamaica}
1 Stud: So Strangways was last seen alive at your bridge game at the Queen's Club? Who else played?
2 Pleydell-Smith: Professor Dent, a metallurgist who runs a test laboratory, respected, clean bill. Potter, old general, ex Indian Army, been here for ages.
3 Stud: Case solved. It was Potter!
3 Pleydell-Smith: But he has a gammy leg, and we were with him the whole time!
4 Stud: Er... Dent then?
4 Pleydell-Smith: Perhaps you'd better meet them first...

We return to James Stud and the Espionage theme, for the first time since #486. He's still in that meeting with the Governor's representative in Jamaica, from Dr No.

It's interesting recreating the same set as before, some three months later. I had to rebuild the whole thing by looking at the previous strip - although in this case it's quite a simple set, so it wasn't difficult. (Yes, an extra leaf has grown on the plants outside the window since last time. This has been a long meeting.)