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conversations.value: a plot for a book about Thringle, Watchman, London entitled Death at the Bar. End with the sentence '\nAlleyn eventually concludes that it was not the dart that had killed Watchman, but the iodine that had been used to treat the wound shortly afterwards, and that Legge was guilty, because only he could have known that the dart would wound Watchman.'.
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conversations.value: Death at the Bar: Luke Watchman, a top London barrister and King's Counsel dies while on his annual holiday in Devon, after a freak accident in which he was struck in the finger with a dart while taking part in a darts display with his friends.\nExamination of the body shows that he died of potassium cyanide poisoning, and traces of cyanide are found on the dart.\nHowever, the dart was a new one just out of the packet, and the witnesses all agree that Robert Legge, the man who threw it, had no opportunity to put cyanide on the dart.\nAlleyn is sent down from London to investigate.\nHe soon deduces that at the heart of the case is a trial which took place nearly ten years before.\nThe two defendants were Lord Bryonie and Montague Thringle, and that Watchman had defended them both.\nHe successfully defended Bryonie and put the majority of the blame on Thringle so that Thringle was sentenced to seven years.\nA key to the decision to let Thringle take the blame was that Thringle had a record for being a Nazi sympathiser in the past.\nAnalysis of Legge's fingerprints reveals that he is Thringle.\nAlleyn eventually concludes that it was not the dart that had killed Watchman, but the iodine that had been used to treat the wound shortly afterwards, and that Legge was guilty, because only he could have known that the dart would wound Watchman.