He Wouldn't Kill Patience Author:Carter Dickson At the beginning of World War II a zoo in England is preparing for air raids. Sir Henry Merrivale is visiting when he encounters an escaped lizard. Later that day he is invited to dinner at the home of a man who lives on the zoo's grounds. Arriving with two magicians he was with earlier, they find their host dead in a sealed room, apparently... more » a suicide by gas. But the man's daughter is sure it was murder because the gas also killed a rare snake (the "Patience" of the title), and she knows her father would not have done such a thing.