Possible Clues:

• Also it's old-fashioned for a stinker to have been in the red like this
• Interior of Greek edifice was humming
• Sounds as if one knows to have found it unpleasant
• It was stinking old-fashioned to get also like this in the red
• Smelled of smoke
• Smelt of smoke.
• Inside he must have been mad to try to stop getting tied up, by the sound of it
• Smelled bad
• Was a real stinker
• Was foul-smelling