Character sketch of Mrs. Merrowdene in accident by agatha christie
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Mrs St. Vincent is a genteel lady living in reduced circumstances with her son and daughter, Rupert and Barbara. After her husband's financial speculations went wrong, he died, and they were forced to vacate the house, which had been in their family for generations. They now live in rooms in a boarding house (which has seen better times) and, due to these surroundings, are unable to entertain people of similar class and upbringing.
Rupert has just started a job in the city, with excellent prospects but, at this point in time, only a small income. Barbara enjoyed a trip to Egypt the previous winter with – and paid for by – her richer cousin. On this trip she met a young man called Jim Masterson, who is interested in courting her, but who would be put off if he saw their reduced circumstances. Looking through the Morning Post, Mrs St. Vincent sees an advertisement for a house to let in Westminster, furnished, and with a nominal rent.
Although she thinks she has little chance of being able to afford the house, she goes to see the house agents and then the house itself, and is instantly taken with it and pleasantly surprised at its very low rent. The agents offer her the house for a six-month rental. Barbara is delighted, but Rupert is suspicious – the house belonged to Lord Listerdale, who disappeared eighteen months previously and supposedly turned up in East Africa, supplying his cousin, Colonel Carfax, with power of attorney.
They take the house and are looked after in style by Quentin, the butler, whose wages are paid for by Lord Listerdale's estate, as are the wages of the two other servants. Delicious food regularly turns up on the table. It is sent up regularly from his Lordship's country seat of King's Cheviot – an old custom.
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Mrs Margaret Merrowdene is the wife of Professor Merrowdene.Evan begins making assumptions about Mrs. Merrowdene, who is allegedly planning the murder of her own husband for financial benefit.
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In the short story Accident, Mrs Margaret Merrowdene (previously Mrs Anthony) is the wife of Professor Merrowdene, residing in an English village. Inspector Evans, one of her neighbours, recognises her as one "Mrs Anthony". Some nine years earlier, she was put on trial for murdering her first husband, but she was acquitted. Checking into her background at that time, Evans had found that she is linked to a previous suspicious death: she had gone for a walk with her stepfather who had fallen down a cliff by accident. Evans believes murderers are seldom content with one crime. His suspicions are intensified when he discovers that Professor Merrowdene has taken out a life insurance which pays to her on his death.