"I have not given much chase to the criminal since I was young and in uniform in Brussels." That was...that was so long ago he cannot recall the date he went from the uniform to plainclothes. "And the disguise...that is something in the works of fiction. I used my little grey cells, and my eyes and ears, to piece together the truth.

"Though," he adds, "sometimes one of my associates did give chase when the wrongdoer fled."