- The brutal murder of a chemist uncovers an illegal abortion racket, while Long Susan finds herself up against the chauvinism of the business world.
- John Currie, a chemist, is murdered, with evidence that he was an abortionist who treated his clients with dangerous lead compounds. His apprentice points the police to a deserted surgery and a strong box, containing evidence that the doctor who owned the surgery was experimenting in sterilization. Dr Frayn persuades Susan to employ Dr Rolle, who will conduct medically supervised terminations to prevent girls visiting back street abortionists but it is too late for Mary Tait, mutilated by Currie and the cause of a fight between her boyfriend Edwin Havelock and her adopted father George Tait. Reid discovers that both George and Rolle have very dark secrets, which lead to the solving of Currie's murderer. Having outwitted a fraudulent property developer Susan is still pursued by Fred for more news of the train robbery loot and then confronted by her father Theodore Swift, who has fled from America.—don @ minifie-1
- DI Reid and DI Drake investigate the murder of chemist John Currie who is found dead on his dispensary floor apparently from a blow to the head. They also find that money has been stuffed down his throat. Jackson tests a solution they found in an unmarked bottle and finds it to be a known potion meant to bring on a miscarriage. Currie's apprentice tells them of a doctor who performed abortions and the location of his hidden surgery. The evidence leads them to a mason, George Tait, whose daughter had visited Currie. That is only the beginning of the mystery however. Meanwhile, Dr. Frayn suggests to Long Susan that the Obsidian clinic should employ her mentor, Dr. Anthony Rolle, to perform abortions.Elsewhere, Drake is trying to work up the courage to propose to Rose.—garykmcd
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