A Most Mysterious Murder

Violet: It's the children I feel sorry for. And to think, he could have been saved if he'd only worn a hat.

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.

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.

Fellowes: On the 27th of April 1928 Edmund Duff breathed his last.

Fellowes: At half past seven in the evening on the fifth of March 1929, Violet Sydney died in appalling agony.

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.