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His daughter lay, almost naked, in the kitchen. A pool of blood spread beneath her head and next and her nightgown was burnt. Under her head lay a copy of the East Anglican Daily Times; broken glass and spilt paraffin lay all around. Her throat had been cut. Twenty-three years old, unmarried and pregnant - something she had denied to both her mother and her employer - Rose seemed to have committed Suicide. But brusing on her right cheek, the discovery of an unsigned assignation note and the absence of any instrument or weapon swiftly pointed to murder.
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