Where Death Delights

AUTHOR’S NOTE

In regard to the use of diatoms, the reliability of which is still controversial, in the Yacht Christine case (R-v-Verrier, 1964), the body of a murdered man dropped off a yacht off the English coast was recovered many weeks later in Belgian waters. Forensic study of the diatoms established that they were of a type found only off the Kent coast and not on the opposite side of the Channel.