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The keeper of a Victorian country store is murdered by her step-daguhter when she discovers she will be disiherited when the widow marries a pedlar. The widow had refused to help the step-daughter financially to marry her own sweetheart and the girl hoped to inherit the widow's goods. Murder committed during a wedding, only the drunken blacksmith knew of it. Portrait of two grasping women, marriage and cold-blooded murder. (PB)
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