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Unsung
Since: Jun, 2016
30th Mar, 2020 01:01:08 PM
A Deadly Affair (#2 and #7) + Imperiled in Pregnancy. Might also be a Surprise Pregnancy or One-Night-Stand Pregnancy.
Edited by Unsung
Alice and Bob are an adulterous couple (or Bob isn't married, but prefers having Alice as a mistress rather than a wife/just uses her for sex). One day, Alice gives Bob the good news: She's pregnant! Bob murders her so he won't get divorced/suffer socially/pay child support/give up his swinging lifestyle.
Sometimes Alice is presented as trying to trap Bob into marrying her by deliberately getting pregnant to make Bob (very) slightly more sympathetic, but more often her naive belief that now Bob will marry her serves to make her death even sadder (and Bob look even worse).
Shows up in a Punisher story (the country girl had been drowned by her panicky summer fling who had no intention of giving up the high life as an up-and-coming executive, but the little sister she'd been babysitting remembered his face and contacted Frank for revenge), several Exbrayat murder mysteries (written in the 60s through 80s and in an upper-class setting where divorce and abortion weren't allowed), possibly a Midsomer Murders episode...