And now, after all these months of fuss and hysteria and delectable details — the Patent King, his beautiful heiress daughters, the downstairs tenant, the
kitchen - maid - cum - tearful - Scarsdale - housewife and her munificent husband, the turret
window, the missing gardener, the
exact length and serration of the blade used to murder the victim — here we all sit, waving our makeshift fans before our perspiring faces, and it turns out these mythical figures are human after all!