![]() ![]() The leash belongs to Miss Pongleton’s elderly asthmatic terrier, Tuppy, as it turns out, so that indicates that the murderer was either a resident of The Frampton or someone who had access to the victim’s belongings. Crampit, but before she could arrive at her destination, she was strangled, from behind, by a dog leash. On the morning of Miss Pongleton’s death, she was on her way, via the underground to an appointment with a “cheap” dentist, Mr. ![]() ![]() Beryl, who’s engaged to Gerry Plasher, a young stockbroker, has money of her own, but Basil, an unsuccessful author, falls into one scrape after another and desperately needs the money. She changed her will constantly, vacillating between her nephew Basil, and her niece Beryl Sanders. Miss Pongleton, or’Pongle’ was a difficult woman. Most of those people were her fellow residents at The Frampton, a London boarding house. In Mavis Doriel Hay’s novel Murder Underground, the story focuses on a handful of people who knew the elderly victim, Miss Pongleton. “Whatever you may feel about your relations, you don’t like to hear of them strangled with a dog leash” ![]()
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