![]() Miss Ramsbottom, Rex’s sister-in-law, invites her to stay. After the story of the three murders is in the newspapers, Miss Marple arrives at Yewtree Lodge to shed light on Gladys Martin, who learned serving and cleaning at Miss Marple’s home. The older son, Percival, tells the Inspector that his father was erratic and ruining the business. Inspector Neele is working full-time with the aid of Sergeant Hay on these murders, interviewing all at the office and in the home. The day Lance arrives at Yewtree Lodge, leaving his wife in London, Adele dies of cyanide in her tea, and a few hours later the maid Gladys Martin is found strangled in the yard, with a clothes peg put on her nose. Son Lancelot and his wife Pat are travelling from Kenya to London, at the invitation of his father, according to Lance at Paris, he wires that he will be home next day, and police meet him at the airport. Rex’s wife Adele is the main suspect in the murder. ![]() An autopsy reveals the cause of death was poisoning by taxine, a toxic alkaloid obtained from the yew tree, and that Fortescue ingested it with his breakfast, while a search of his clothing reveals a quantity of rye in his jacket pocket. ![]() ![]() When London businessman Rex Fortescue dies after drinking his morning tea, Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Neele spearheads the investigation. ![]()
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