After Aristide is poisoned by his own eye medicine ( eserine), his granddaughter Sophia tells narrator and fiancé Charles Hayward that they cannot marry until the killer is apprehended. Second wife indolent Brenda, decades his junior, exchanges love letters with grandchildren's tutor. His first wife died her sister Edith has cared for the household since then. Three generations of the Leonides family live together under wealthy patriarch Aristide. twisted and twining" unhealthily interdependent on the intensely strong personality of the family patriarch Aristide. Narrator Charles' fiancée Sophia says not dishonest rather "we hadn't been able to grow up independent. The title refers to (" There Was a Crooked Man") nursery rhyme, a common theme of author. 6.1 References to actual history, geography and current science.
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