SPOILERS!!!
A new death. This time it is Lizzie Kellett, just a few days after her husband died in the dyeing room. From the pathologist Lizzie found out that Paul Kellett had morphia and another drug in his body, which could be used for his mutilated hand, but the pathologist thinks that it could have led to an overdose.
It is Kate who finds Lizzie when she goes to talk to her. She is on the foot of the stairs, and Kate calls Cosntable Mitchell. Soon they discover that this is not accident. The gash in her head is not the result of a fall, and when they check her bedroom, they find out from a mark left on the dust that a box is missing. Kate also remembers the postal order stub, which is gone as well as Lizzie's address book. Sykes is also called as well as Mitchell's suergeant and superintendent, and they find a cricket bat in the stream, which is clearly the crime weapon.
Before going to London where she is to join her family for her aunt's birthday celebration, Kate manages to talk to Hector, who finally admits to being one of the boy scouts that found Joshua on the stream. Hector says that Joshua was confused and didn't even recognise him, and he looked as if he had been attacked: he had a swollen lip, bruises and his clothes were in disarray. Hector also says that later he saw Joshua outside the clinic and he asked him to find out where his motorbike was. Hector did and told Kellett under Joshua's instructions. Hector also remembers some weeks before he had seen Joshua around his motorbike, and from the sidecar he had takena bucket and spade.
In London at her aunt's party Dr Grainger is invited, and he asks Kate to meet him the next day. There is something else he has to tell her. What Dr Grainger says is that from the clinic he saw Joshua run towards the hill, but he didn't tell the police because Evelyn told him that her husband would come around, but then it was too late to say anything.
Sykes and Kate have discovered that the painting that Dr Grainger gave her has some splotches, covering something. So she asks a friend who is an art expert to have a look, and the man uncovers two figures: that of a young lady and a baby in a moses basket.
From the post office Sykes discovers who Lizzie was sending the postal orders. It was a gowman called Nancy Horlock, and Kate goes to see her. What she discovers is that Nancy is the mother of Agnes, who was a lodger at Lizzie's while her husband was fighting the war, but when he came back, Agnes went. Agnes had a baby, and Nancy tells her that Agnes died but Lizzie sent her money for the boy. When Kate shows Nancy a photograph of the female figure in the painting, Nancy identifies her late daughter. So Kate thinks that the body, Frederick, is Joshua's son.
Sykes then calls Kate to tell her that Mitchell has arrested Arthur Wilson. He killed Lizzie. His fingerprints were found on the cricket bat, and the footprints found outside the cottage match his shoes. Yet, the man denies killing her husbnad.
This is getting more and more intriguing. Where is Joshua if he is alive? Or if he is dead? Who killed him? And who killed Paul Kettell? And why?
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