5 Detective Novels Magazine Cover — page 77: what you’re looking at

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ij & jin “There’s one more thing,” said Smith. “He started fooling around with Annie Sutherland while his first wife was still around.” Well, of course, that did give things a new twist. At least, it was enough to send the World reporter to call on the doctors who had treated Mrs. Buchanan No. Two in her last hours. Each stated that she had not been poisoned, and each declared himself willing to stake his pro- fessional reputation on his opinion. They declared that if she had been poi- soned, her eyes would have given that fact away. But they’d been perfectly normal; there’d been no contraction at all. Nevertheless, the sudden disappear- ance of Mrs. Buchanan No. One and the sudden death of Mrs. Buchanan No. Two, plus the doctor’s haughty attitude toward his second wife, whom he was supposed to have loved, decided the World reporter to go to Nova Scotia. Had he found the doctor there by him- 77 Ree — . ot pee =" “ BS Rear g LN ~. S . WAS EAS ES a7 BA phiiks = . Yip . ma ' . bie 48 - oo en) 4 wits Bs wr 2 ~~ \ re OF ‘a ¥ ¢ - ct — = “She ran a string of bawdy houses. That’s where she got her money.” self, the chances are that only a routine interview would have resulted, and that would have ended the matter. But the doctor wasn’t by himself. He was living with a very pretty woman— wife No. One! So the whole thing shaped up as a diabolical plot, whereby the mild-appear- ing doctor could have the gold of one wife and the love of another. : When Mrs. Annie B. Sutherland Buchanan’s body was exhumed, it was established that death had resulted from morphine poisoning. The reason that her eyes had given no indication of it was that the doctor had cleverly given her another drug which had counter- acted the contracting effect of the poison. So Dr. Buchanan’s “perfect crime” missed by an eyelash of being perfect. Ironically enough, it was exactly a year to the day after the madam he didn’t call madam died that a jury brought in a verdict that sent the doctor to the gallows. eee Be oN Conniclooo <S) (CO) mM