Walter Hartright proves that Laura Fairlie, who was swapped with her lookalike half-sister Anne Catherick and locked in an asylum under Anne’s name, is alive.

Winnie Foster, who learned that the Tuck family became immortal by drinking from a spring, chooses not to drink the water, even though Jesse Tuck asks her to at seventeen.

Jodi Brett, a therapist whose partner of twenty years, Todd Gilbert, leaves her for his pregnant young girlfriend Natasha, hires a hitman to kill him before he can throw her out of their home.

After the boy staying in the house befriends Arrietty Clock and brings the tiny Borrowers gifts, the housekeeper Mrs.

Hercule Poirot proves that Emily Inglethorp was poisoned by her much younger husband, Alfred Inglethorp, working with his supposed enemy, Evelyn Howard, who was secretly his cousin and lover.

Sherlock Holmes catches Jonathan Small, the one-legged ex-convict behind the murder of Bartholomew Sholto, after a steam launch chase on the Thames.

The famous novelist Vida Winter reveals to her biographer, Margaret Lea, that she is not one of the Angelfield twins, Adeline and Emmeline, but a third, hidden girl: their illegitimate half-sister.

Eve Gardiner, a former World War I spy, finally gets revenge on René Bordelon, the collaborator who betrayed her and killed her friend Lili.

Elderly May Crandall reveals to Avery Stafford that she is Rill Foss, one of five siblings stolen in 1939 by the Tennessee Children’s Home Society and adopted out.

Malorie rows blindfolded down a river with two four-year-olds, called Boy and Girl, and reaches a former school for the blind, where survivors live safely because they cannot be driven mad by seeing the creatures.