The jurors glanced at each other.
“Perhaps you may be thinking — as the prosecution asserts — that Mrs. Spadros acted from bitter resentment for the destruction of her home. Yet which makes more sense? That a young woman resentful of matters which occurred before her birth would hatch an elaborate plot which murders the two women she loves most? Or that there’s another culprit yet unchallenged?”
He let the words hang there for several seconds.
“So this brings up the question: why was she put on trial, when there is reasonable question of at least one man — and a woman forger — who might have done these things?
“Mrs. Spadros has no training in finance, no knowledge of gems. There’s no evidence she bought or sold a single stone. She gained no benefit from Dame Anastasia’s scam. What poss
