The Murders in Praed Street · Character
Dr. Morlandson
A doctor convicted of poisoning a patient with morphia, whose decades-old trial the Professor exhumes as the murders resist every modern explanation.
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Also known as Morlandson, this Dr. Morlandson
First appearance: iii the inquest
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Examines the body, extracts the broken needle, identifies the white incrustation as likely potassium carbonate, and notes similarities to the Colburn case.
Morlandson was tried at the Old Bailey for killing a patient with an overdose of morphia, sentenced to Dartmoor, and released on licence in 1920 after fourteen years. He vanished into seclusion to devote himself to chemical research, a bent he had always had. The Professor's seemingly irrelevant pursuit of this forgotten case unsettles Harold, who cannot see how a trial from the century's first decade bears on the deaths in Praed Street.
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- Professional
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- Praed Street suspects and investigators
- Family members and local associates
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- Breaking point
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