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Lady Molly of Scotland Yard - Chapter 3 - The Irish-Tweed Coat

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Mr. Shuttleworth unearths the Irish tweed coat with the murdered man's watch, proving a gang framed his son.

In Chapter 3 of 'Lady Molly of Scotland Yard', Mr. Shuttleworth seeks Lady Molly's help to prove his son Cecil innocent of Mr. Carthwaite's murder in Sicily. They uncover a plot where a gang framed Cecil using his coat and the victim's watch, buried in London. Lady Molly and her secretary Mary go undercover, leading to a tense chase across Europe to deliver the evidence before Cecil's trial.

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A grim, clue-led mystery built around a torn coat, a missing watch, and a house full of wary silence.

This chapter opens as a tidy, grim puzzle: Mr. Andrew Carthwaite is found in the garden of his villa near Palermo with a stiletto in his back and a torn piece of Irish tweed in his hand.

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You get a murder puzzle where a torn Irish tweed coat and a missing gold watch keep every room under suspicion.

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