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killing her and possibly killing himself. She used a knife her late first husband brought back from his sailing voyages, because she sensed Sorrel’s crazy state of mind and had to stop him. No one had taken her seriously in the early part of the investigation. Now they did. Police speculate how Mrs Wallis might be treated in court, and feel she will not be hanged.
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Bert Sorrel had known her daughter in childhood when she was raised by her aunt and uncle
Markham, and he had been in contact with her in her current stardom. Her daughter sent back the brooch with her initials in pearls to Sorrel. Upon his rejection, he was going to make a scene at the performance,
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reviewed this novel in 1953 when the novel was reprinted by
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Lamont is brought before magistrate’s court where his attorney protests the manner of his confession. Grant expresses his misgivings to
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Sitting with Barker, Grant hears the confession of the “fat woman” from the queue, Mrs Wallis, who did kill Sorrel. The boss wants to send her away, until Grant realises she is the mother of Ray
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in a case, with initials in gem stones. At the jewelers, he learns it was custom made and expensive. Mrs
Everett and Gerry Lamont knew Sorrell was sailing to America the day after the musical comedy, and thus neither thought he might be the fair-haired dead man until four or five days after his
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