The Mysterious Affair



“Three, or even four doses, would not have resulted in death. Mrs. Inglethorp always had an extra large amount of medicine made up at a time, as she dealt with Coot’s, the Cash Chemists in Tadminster. She would have had to take very nearly the whole bottle to account for the amount of strychnine found at the postmortem.”

“Then you consider that we may dismiss the tonic as not being in any way instrumental in causing her death?”


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“Three, or even four doses, would not have resulted in death. Mrs. Inglethorp always had an extra large amount of medicine made up at a time, as she dealt with Coot’s, the Cash Chemists in Tadminster. She would have had to take very nearly the whole bottle to account for the amount of strychnine found at the postmortem.”

“Then you consider that we may dismiss the tonic as not being in any way instrumental in causing her death?”


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