Word: skewness
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...only man in British officialdom who smells a Teuton in the one-by-one disappearance of four of His Majesty's newest war planes, Scotland Yarder Richardson ambles after clews with the skew of a Punch barfly, leans archly on an emblematic umbrella, stickles an uncertain industrialist with the crack: "With your genius for sitting on either side of the fence, you ought to be in the Government." As upsetting to Scotland Yard tradition as he is to the belief that the British are essentially humorless, Actor Richardson seemed the likeliest character yet to carry on for justice...