Once is an accident. Twice is a coincidence. But three times? Three women dead in identical circumstances is highly suspicious.

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Books and sources in order of appearance:

—The Magnificent Spilsbury and the Brides in the Bath by Jane Robins

—Notable British Trials: George Joseph Smith

—British Newspaper Archive

—Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie

—Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers

—Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers

—A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie

—The Bath Mysteries by E.R. Punshon

—"Three Is A Lucky Number" in The Allingham Casebook by Margery Allingham

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