It could still be a complete mystery, like this; "It was me!" A soft voice cried from behind the lamppost, then footsteps echoed off the stone walls as the mystery killer ran away for the last time... Check your work.
As the priest began the ceremony of admittance, two candidates stepped forward, their footsteps echoing off the cold stone-walls of the church of St Bartholomew the Great.
"Destroying things is easy – I know all about that," reflects Arena as we stroll beneath the wall, footsteps resounding off it, "but creating things is hard".
But after a 15-minute drive down a deserted muddy track that trundled through the forest, we found ourselves walking alongside gargantuan oak casks, alone except for a young tour guide, Martina Frullanti, our footsteps echoing off the vaulted stone ceilings.
Two verses into the fallout-shelter satire "Let Me Die in My Footsteps," Dylan breaks off.
Thus far, he was simply following in his father's and grandfather's footsteps: trading, fighting off pirates in the eastern Mediterranean, developing a cosmopolitan outlook.
But David Johnson, Dell's senior vice president of corporate strategy, said his company had no plans to follow in H.P.'s footsteps and split off its PC business.
And now thousands of funny people with brightly coloured outdoor clothing and maps in plastic mapholders follow in their footsteps, ticking them off.
Eugene O'Neill made a few halfhearted attempts at following in his actor father's footsteps before heading off on the long journey that would eventually result in some of the American theater's greatest plays.
Outside, the empty, narrow cobbled streets are quite silent in the beautiful hill-top Tuscan town of Volterra – a stillness through which footsteps echo loudly off the ancient stone.
