The prime suspect was Silas Tipton, the inventor’s bitter rival. But Murdoch noticed a detail everyone missed—a smudge of grease on the automaton’s gearbox, inconsistent with Tipton’s clean workshop.
“He was electrocuted, sir,” Murdoch said to Inspector Brackenreid, who puffed his cigar irritably. “But the wire leads to that device.” murdoch mysteries afilmywap
Following the clue, he arrived at a small tenement where he found Margaret Bly, a brilliant but overlooked mechanic once employed by Pemberton. She confessed calmly. The prime suspect was Silas Tipton, the inventor’s
Toronto, 1903. A chill fog coiled around the gaslights as Detective William Murdoch examined the body sprawled across the floor of the Tipton Engineering Works. The victim, Arthur Pemberton, lay with a thin copper wire wrapped around his neck—burned into the skin, not strangulation. The prime suspect was Silas Tipton