s story are lmaganary<br >r the title The Point of Murder<br >SUSPENSE<br >ret Yorke. All rights reserved.<br >art of this book may be used or<br >written permission except in the<br >eles and reviews. For information<br >ast 53rd Street. New York， N.Y.<br >aflon Data<br >1<br >In the front bedroom of No. 11 Chestnut Avenue， Ferringham，<br >Mrs. Maud Wilson was waiting. A commercial was showing on<br >the television screen before her. When the main program began，<br >so would the radio concert which her daughter Kate planned to<br >hear. At that instant， Mrs. Wilson would ring her bell to demand<br >white bread and butter instead of the wholemeal on her supper<br >tray--punishment for the brisk way in which the tray had been<br >set down because Kate did not want to miss a note of the over-<br >ture.<br > Though old， Mrs. Wilson was not ill. She had chosen never to<br >recover from the shock of Kate s conception and birth when Mrs.<br >Wilson herself was forty-four years old and had long since aban-<br >doned hope of a replacement for the son who had died in infancy<br >fifteen years before， and whose round face and mild unfocused<br >gaze stared at Kate from photographs dotted round the house:<br >the tyrant presence mentioned daily by her mother in the context<br >of "if only."<br ><br >