“Do you often interrupt will readings with accusations of murder?” Lady Tabitha asked, surrounded by her four children.
“You will have to excuse me, Lady Tabitha, but I assume you want me to bring the killer of your husband to justice?”
She held out a cigarette for her doting son-in-law to light. “My dear inspector, whatever gave you that impression? Whoever killed him did us a favor. Are you suggesting one of us did it?”
“I don’t make suggestions or accusations. I am absolutely sure of it. And you’re next.”
“I welcome death. I doubt the killer feels the same.”
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