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A trooper in a township is entangled in an unhappy marriage between the miserly old storekeeper in search of a mother for his bastard uncontrollable five year-old son, and a termagent spinster in want of his money and escape from her bullied father. The storekeeper resolves to leave her but the discovery of his murdered and dismembered son, and his poisoning leads the trooper to arrest the wife who has attempted to poison her father too - and suicides in gaol. Violence and horror. (PB)
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