- Complete Monster: Nevile Strange is a psychopath who feels that anyone who has ever wronged him must die. When his wife Audrey leaves him for another man out of fear, he decides that she has to die, and die humiliated at that, first killing her new husband and making it seem like an accident. With that in mind, he bludgeons his adoptive mother, Lady Tressilian, to death, and lays two overlapping sets of false clues, so that it will look as though Audrey not only committed the murder, but also tried to frame him for the murder. He arranged for the death of lawyer Arthur Treves, who remembered him from a case he committed as a child when he deliberately killed another child with a bow and arrow and might have been able to expose him. His intent is that Audrey be destroyed socially and then hanged; when he's exposed, he screams that he does not care, and starts ranting about how much he wants Audrey to be hanged.
- Moral Event Horizon: The murder of Lady Tressilian is this, especially since despite her being the adoptive mother of the killer, her murder is nothing more than a means towards the goal of getting Audrey hanged.
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