The Almost Perfect Murder

men over forty can be said to be perfectly healthy. His lungs showed some infiltration due to old tubercular lesions. His heart was a little enlarged, but without any pericarditis. There were also some suspicious spots in the pelvis. All common conditions.\"

\"But none of them sufficient to have caused death?\"

\"Not ordinarily.\"

\"Then if this was just an ordinary case the report would be that the man died of...?\"

\"Heart failure, Madame.\"


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men over forty can be said to be perfectly healthy. His lungs showed some infiltration due to old tubercular lesions. His heart was a little enlarged, but without any pericarditis. There were also some suspicious spots in the pelvis. All common conditions.\"

\"But none of them sufficient to have caused death?\"

\"Not ordinarily.\"

\"Then if this was just an ordinary case the report would be that the man died of...?\"

\"Heart failure, Madame.\"


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