Suspicion Family Review

A shy young heiress marries a charming gentleman, and soon begins to suspect he is planning to murder her.Johnnie Aysgarth is a handsome gambler who seems to live by borrowing money from friends. He meets shy Lina McLaidlaw on a train while trying to travel in a first-class car with a third-class ticket. He begins to court Lina, and before long, they are married. It is only after the honeymoon that she discovers his true character, and she starts to become suspicious when Johnnie's friend and business partner, Beaky, is mysteriously killed.—Col Needham <[email protected]>While traveling to the countryside of England by train, the repressed, shy Lina McLaidlaw meets reckless playboy Johnnie Aysgarth when he crashes her first-class cabin with a third-class ticket. When they meet again, Johnnie overhears a conversation of her father about her heritage and courts her, and she immediately falls in love with him. They get married and when they return from their fancy honeymoon, Lina discovers that Johnnie is a broke gambler who borrows money from his friends to live in a high standard. Then she finds out that he is also a liar, and after receiving his old friend and partner in a real-estate business, Beaky, in their home, Lina believes that Johnnie intends to kill Beaky. However, they decide to travel to Paris to dissolve their partnership. When two detectives come to their house to investigate Beaky's mysterious death in Paris, Lina believes Johnnie is the murderer, and she will be his next victim.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, BrazilAfter a chance meeting on a train, Johnnie Aysgarth and Lina McLaidlaw have a whirlwind romance and are married. Johnnie was well known in society circles while Lina is a shy sort. They return from a lengthy European honeymoon to a beautiful house Johnnie's arranged for them. She's a bit shocked to learn, however, that her new husband has no means of support, and seems to live off money he borrows from friends. She soon learns he has a darker side and loves to gamble. Johnnie loves mystery novels, and Lina begins to suspect he would go to any lengths to keep his lifestyle secure. She's certain that a business deal he's dreamed up with his longtime friend Beaky is a scam on his part. When the police inform her that Beaky died in Paris, she's certain her husband is behind it all. Her main concern is whether she will be the next victim.—garykmcdIf she had ever thought it herself, heiress Lina McLaidlaw receives confirmation that others close to her believe she is destined to become a spinster because of her mousy appearance and demeanor. That's why she falls so hard for Johnnie Aysgarth when he shows a romantic interest in her; he runs in her social class and seems to attract the eyes of many young women with his easy charm and good looks. That romantic interest is a change from their first meeting when he paid her no real attention despite her helping him out of a jam. So her answer is an immediate yes when he asks her to marry him soon after; they elope so nobody can try to talk her out of it. Only after they're officially married does Lina learn that he has no money and has been living off whatever schemes he came up with except actually working at an honest job, although he loves the high life that money can buy. Despite catching him in lies of omission and direct lies, Lina does not believe that he married her solely for what money she would eventually inherit; if money from his wife was his motivation, there were bigger fish in the ocean. Even admissions from Johnnie's friend Beaky of "Johnnie being Johnnie" in his ease of coming up with excuses for his irresponsible lifestyle does not seem to diminish her love for him. But she then suspects him of wanting to murder her for her money.—Huggo2 moreAll