[26T]>The Peculiar Charwoman[26C][26Q]>3421>KILLER:|1. Lowell Quilley|2. Ralph Pennman|3. Louise Ferguson|4. Daniel Ferguson|>MOTIVE:|1. Jealousy|2. Cover up bigamy|3. Blackmail|4. Revenge for rejection|>CAUSE OF DEATH:|1. Smoke inhalation|2. Smothered by hand|3. Induced heart attack|4. Air injected into bloodstream|[26S]>Tobacconist Daniel Ferguson, equally dividing his time between his London and Liverpool shops, found in the arrangement an equal opportunity to divide his affections.  ||Surprised by his Liverpool wife Bessie's visit to his London shop, Ferguson lured the unfortunate girl into a shed behind the shop (used to hickory-smoke certain blends), then dressed his victim in a charwoman's garb, his immediate problem cured.  [26A]>KILLER: Daniel Ferguson|MOTIVE: Bigamy|CAUSE OF DEATH: Smoke inhalation[28T]>The Duchess's Demise[28C][28Q]>3321>KILLER:|1. Lucy Blackthorn|2. Collin Rodney|3. Alex Stafford|4. Vera Bigelow|>MOTIVE:|1. Inheritance|2. Discovered cheating|3. Fear of rejection|4. Revenge for new will|>ALIBI:|1. Ventriloquism|2. Mirrors|3. Gramophone|4. Mass hypnotism|[28S]>In her sitting room at Barrington Manor, the Duchess confronted Alex Stafford, demanding he return the funds he had won from cheating at the card table. ||Enraged, Stafford killed the Duchess with a poker from the fireplace and attempted to establish an alibi for himself using ventriloquism.  [28A]>KILLER: Alex Stafford|MOTIVE: Discovered cheating|ALIBI: Ventriloquism[30T]>The Deadly Caller[30C][30Q]>3414>KILLER:|1. Lorenzo Marchetti|2. Homer Mayhew|3. Priscilla Lyons|4. Victor Juno|>WEAPON:|1. Snake|2. Spider|3. Poison gas|4. A deadly mosquito|>MOTIVE:|1. Robbery|2. Jealousy|3. Revenge|4. Inheritance|[30S]>Captain Victor Juno feared his stepmother's wild infatuation for gigolo Lorenzo Marchetti and concocted a fiendish murder plot to secure his inheritance.  ||Juno returned to England carrying a deadly but trained Indian cobra.  He then adjusted the radiator in his stepmother's room to emit a "whistling" pitch.  ||From his adjoining room, Juno released the cobra into a common ventilator shaft opening near his stepmother's bed.  As Mrs. Lyons rose in the night hearing the gentle sound of movement, she realized too late that "music" from the radiator pipes had "charmed" the caller.  [30A]>KILLER: Victor Juno|WEAPON: Snake|MOTIVE: Inheritance[34T]>The Spinster's Will[34C][34Q]>3222>KILLER:|1. Elmo Wadsworth|2. Ward Ramsey|3. Meredith Ballard|4. Florence Catlett|>WEAPON:|1. Poison aspirin|2. Sleeping pills|3. Poisonous cleaning fluid|4. Drugged brandy|>MOTIVE:|1. Inheritance to clear debts|2. Gain potential diamond mine|3. Inheritance to gain independence|4. Money needed to marry|[34S]>Learning that a vast diamond field had been discovered near the worthless gold mine Miss Pierpoint was to bequeath him, druggist Ward Ramsey substituted sleeping pills for the aspirin tablets Miss Pierpoint kept at her bedside.  [34A]>KILLER: Ward Ramsey|WEAPON: Sleeping Pills|MOTIVE: Diamond Mine[9999K]
