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Abigail HollickAmy
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Michael HaugheyDr. Jackson
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Jacqueline ClarkeAunt Gwen
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Julian Fellowes
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QUOTES (6)
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Violet: It's the children I feel sorry for. And to think, he could have been saved if he'd only worn a hat.
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Fellowes: And so Violet Sydney became the third member of her family to die within the year. At last the alarm bells were ringing, and not before time.
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Fellowes: Despite the similarity to Edmund's death, the world accepted that the car starter handle had done for Vera. And a few days later, she was buried next to her unfortunate brother in law.
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Fellowes: On the 27th of April 1928 Edmund Duff breathed his last.
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Fellowes: At half past seven in the evening on the fifth of March 1929, Violet Sydney died in appalling agony.
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Fellowes: This, (Indicating the house behind him) is 59 Birdhirst Rise in Croydon. In 1929, it was the home of a pretty widow, Grace Duffy and her three young children...an attractive lot; educated and amusing, good looking, well off. The last family in England, one might think, to lose three members of it through murder.
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In an interview, Julian fellowes said that he had a particular soft spot for this episode because it is a very British murder.
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The funeral sequences were shot in the churchyard in Croydon where the real bodies of the victims are buried.
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This is the first time that writer /actress Jean Marsh has worked with actress Stella Gonet since the early 1990s. Marsh wrote the BBC drama The House of Eliott and Gonet played the lead Beatrice Eliott.
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One of the Croydon locations used in this episode was a house that was there when two of the murders took place in Birdhurst Rise.
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