YMMV / Dr. Gideon Fell

• Magnificent Bastard (The Crooked Hinge): John Farnleigh is a rebellious and hedonistic young aristocrat who loses his legs in a fight with another boy seeking to steal his identity. He spends the next twenty-five years as a carnival hustler, alternating between using prosthetic legs or pretending to be a dwarf rather than legless, then learns his former assailant is impersonating him, has inherited the family fortune, and is married to John's childhood friend Molly. John enters a relationship with Molly, who is being blackmailed by her husband and they plot to kill the fake John Farnleigh. Wearing hidden prosthetics, John arrives at his ancestral home, charms the false John's circle of acquaintances, acts like he's certain to prove his identity as the real heir and has nothing to fear, then kills his imposter while using his hidden reduced stature to stay out of sight below a hedge and make it look like his victim was stabbed while standing alone. Fleeing the country with Molly as the investigators close in on him, John sends his friend a letter detailing everything after escaping.