Flypaper
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A Victorian mansion in Aigburth, Liverpool, May 1889. Theodore Halloway, a 51-year-old cotton merchant, died in his own bedroom after two weeks of stomach pains.
The doctor found arsenic in the body. On the bedside table, a bottle of beef extractbeef extract A thick, concentrated paste or liquid made by boiling beef, used as a flavouring or a restorative drink. had a white powder settled at the bottom.
All of Liverpool has already chosen the culprit: the young American wife, who bought flypaper at the chemist's in April and soaked it in a basin.
Three people were nursing the sick man during those two weeks. One of them wanted him dead before Monday the 13th.
A Victorian mansion bedroom, curtains drawn, an unmade bed and medicine bottles.
Suspects
Cornelius HallowayThe victim's brother and bookkeeper of the cotton firm, 46
Lavinia HallowayThe victim's wife, an American from New York, 27
Martha QuillNanny to the household's children, 31
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