Something up Dawson's sleeve?

摘要

I should like to add to Henry Gee's summary of Brian Gardiner's suspicions about Martin Hinton as the forger of the Piltdown fossils. Just a few years ago, Frank Spencer accused Sir Arthur Keith of being the forger. Anyone who knew Keith well would not entertain such a ridiculous verdict, but Spencer had him guilty from the first sentence, and then, with winks and nods, pinned him down as the forger. But Spencer could have incriminated any of the suspects he mentioned, including Hinton, for the book reads like a 'whodunit'. Now Hinton is accused of being the forger because he invented the stain found on the so-called fossils supposedly recovered at Piltdown.