Why the "Missing Fingers"
Sorry to belabor the point, but has anyone asked themselves what possible reason would there have been to cut off Mr. MacDonald's fingers?
To force him to sign the will? Then how did he sign it with no fingers? Why was the document not spattered with blood?
To torture him? For what reason? Is someone a nasty vicious Queen into S & M?
Maybe so no one would be able to identify the body?
Brilliant. I can hear the conversation now:
Officer Dullard: "We have a body in room 47 that we can't identify. Who was checked into room 47?"
Clerk: "That would be Mr. Macdonald from Scotland, Sir."
Officer Dullard: "Well heck, he's got no fingers so we can't be sure if it's really him. Better send for Sherlock Holmes!"
Maybe the hit men were just too stupid to know there are such things as dental records. And maybe the Gay Mafia Queen of Pattaya hires the Three Stooges to do his dirty work.
Or maybe, using Occam's Razor, the body was simply in such a state after being burned that fingerprints could not be used for identification. And perhaps the story sounds better, more juicy, more exciting, saying the fingers were "hacked off" than merely stating that they were missing.