Jam and Jeopardy
讀書樂編號:4285
推介人: 黃韻玲校友
Janet Stouter, who is a 89-year-old spinster, makes herself happy by repeating old and new humiliations of her neighbours. She also refuses her nephews the money the need to strengthen their business. One day when a retired glass worker give her some white arsenic to kill the rats hidden in her garden, she decided to test her two nephew whether they are worthy to inherit her legacy. The detailed plan is: the one who attempts to kill her will be the only heir and if they both try, they will get half of her great amounts of savings. In her plan, she thinks that her life will be safe but things go wrong as the old lady spreads word of her newly obtained poison around the people and therefore some people intend to murderer her. She were too shortsighted to foresee number of other potential assassins will come into the frame or that one will succeed in silencing her vicious tongue forever.