The ambulance came. But it didn’t come for Higgins. It came for Ancarrow. Yes, he was still alive. But only barely.
Edna would be released since Ancarrow had given a death bed type of confession to the murders of both Anna Blake and Robert O’Malley. According to him, he killed his partner because Robert was embezzling from the business after Edna cut Robert off from her family’s funds. Robert’s reckless behavior was costing the firm both money and clients.
When he wouldn’t listen to reason and continued to gamble and make plans with Anna, Ancarrow realized that O’Malley was no longer an asset to the business but a strict liability.
The morning of the murder, Ancarrow followed Robert to his therapy session and waited until he thought they were alone. They argued. When Ancarrow learned that Robert was planning on selling his half of the business to Dmitri Ivanov, it was the last straw. Enraged, Ancarrow stabbed his partner with Dr. Dick’s letter-opener, the one that had been left on my desk.
Anna Blake had suspected Ancarrow and made the mistake of trying to blackmail him. He decided to eliminate her, too. Only her death was premeditated. If Ancarrow survived, he faced two counts of murder. All I could think of was thank God it wasn’t three or four counts – counts that would have included Daisy and me.