sentences:  However, circumstantial evidence soon begins piling up and conspiring against the hapless sailor.When Wycliffe arrives on the scene of the crime, he too finds himself believing Cedric's protestations of innocence, and soon establishes a link between the current murder and that of a young woman twenty years ago, supposedly strangled by a cousin of Cedric's, who served fourteen years of a commuted death sentence.Two very different women, a nightclub singer and a nurse, have been strangled in their own homes, under the same efficient method, within the space of one week.