Killer Clue

What do you think of this clue?

           Skelton reported that this landed in the soup (4,4)

Not easily solvable, but anything more portentous than that?

This clue had a critical role to play in a Jeffrey Archer short story. It led the hero to take his own life!

Read "Old Love" from Jeffrey Archer's short story collection A Quiver Full Of Arrows to know more.

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