A Mind To Murder

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at the clinic to pay his living expenses while he waits for a prestigious arts grant to come his way. However, Peter is infected with the arrogance of those who feel that their talent entitles them to liberties unavailable to the rest of society. He lives in a magnificent studio apartment, and owns only the very best painting equipment. He obviously cannot afford this on a clinic-porter’s salary, so he figures out a way to, with Marion Bolam’s help, blackmail former patients into paying him fifteen pounds each per month in return for his silence about their embarrassing diagnoses. The possibility that maybe he should make do with a less impressive dwelling and less extravagant equipment never seems to occur to Peter because, after all, he is Peter Nagle. He has been told over and over again that he is brilliant, talented, headed for certain fame. Thus he reacts with the arrogance one would expect of such an august personage. This constitutes a disruption of the ...

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killing. But if blackmail and accessory to murder is not enough, Peter is willing to go even further. He has been working together with Marion Bolam in the blackmail scheme, and when he realizes how close she is to a huge fortune, the lovesick Jennifer Priddy is simply an albatross around his neck. If he could get rid of Jennifer once and for all, he would simultaneously rid himself of someone who a) knew too much, 2) was too desperate to spend her life in his arms, and 3) stood between himself and his new love, an heiress. Consequently he determines to kill Jennifer and make it appear a suicide. He is actually doing a very good job at it, too -- except he is surprised by Detective ...

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