What does the last sentence mean?
IN the morning Grant telephoned to his chief, but he had no sooner begun his story than Bryce interrupted him.
'That you, Grant? You send back that Man Friday of yours straight away. Benny Skoll cleaned out Poppy Plumtre's bedroom safe last night.'
'I thought all Poppy's valuables were with Uncle.'
'Not since she got herself a new daddy.'
'Are you sure that it's Benny?'
'Quite sure. It has all his trade-marks. The telephone call to get the hall porter out of the way, the lack of fingerprints, the bread-and-jam and milk meal, the exit by the service entrance. Short of signing his name in the visitors' book, he couldn't have written his signature more clearly over it.'
(Chapter 11 To Love and Be Wise, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800551h.html#ch11)Does it meant that except signing his name in the visitor's book, he did everything to let others know who did it?
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I think you're on the right track. The idea here is that there is a person who is known to be a criminal, and he usually commits his crimes in a similar way each time, so the police know who committed this crime. The scene "has all his trade-marks." All the evidence shows who committed the crime. The only way that the criminal could have been more obvious about his identity was if he had literally signed the guest book.
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