Miss Unwin was just setting off down the stairs with him when she realised that below in the hall the Sergeant was conducting what was presumably the last of the interviews, with the youngest and least in the household, John the page. ‘One moment, Pelham dear,’ she said. ‘I think the police serge...
Steadman, the power of logical thought she had inherited from one or the other of her unknown parents was as strong in her as ever. “Mrs. Steadman,” she said after they had sat in silence for more than a few moments, “though I have come to believe every word you have said about your husband—that ...
Mostly she was simply pleased at the prospect. She greatly feared difficult times lay ahead. There was to be the post-mortem examination of old Mr Partington’s body, and if that revealed, as Doctor Sumsion had seemed sure that it would, that the old miser had indeed died by poison then there woul...