RATING: GOOD
SPOILERS!!!
Violet Strange is summoned by her boss to taken on the case of Mrs Hammond, and she initially refuses, claiming that the man committed suicide. However, she finally agrees to see the woman.
The thing is that some neighbours of the Hammonds were awake that night because the Hammonds' baby kept crying, and then they heard a shot and the baby remained quiet. The neighbours, the Saunders, rushed to the Hammonds and Mrs Hammond opened the door, saying that she had fallen asleep in the living room. When they entered Mr Hammond's bedroom, they found him dead, a shot in his chest, and his arm had fallen over the baby, suffocating him to death.
Violet goes to see Mrs Hammond and she says that she can't believe that her husband killed himself because he was a coward and was afraid of death. She says that they had a row that night because he accused her of not doing enough to keep the baby settled, so she got angry and told him to do it himself. Mrs Hammond claims that she heard two shots, and she suspects that there is another man involved, someone who has kept a grudge because she agreed to marry Hammond and not him.
Violet questions the woman, the neighbours and examines the room. Then she reveals that it is true that there must have been someone at the window, and the man shot, killing Mr Hammond, and the shot from Mr Hammond's gun, went off course, bouncing on the mirror, and then the bullet found another direction. Violet says that as the baby was crying, the bullet ended up in his mouth, killing him, and the fact that he was found under his father's weight is not the reason that killed him.
I found this story very sad and at the same time a bit complex for my taste.
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