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| - After World War II, Jeremy Stanton co-founded Barrington Stanton Industries with Gordon Barrington, who had newly emigrated to Canada with his wife, Katherine. However, Stanton wanted full control of the company. He therefore had his partner murdered—though he took the precaution of making it look as though Barrington had simply had a car accident. His influence in the city ensured that no one suspected the truth. Or, at least, no one except the widow. Stanton was therefore arrested for murder.
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| - After World War II, Jeremy Stanton co-founded Barrington Stanton Industries with Gordon Barrington, who had newly emigrated to Canada with his wife, Katherine. However, Stanton wanted full control of the company. He therefore had his partner murdered—though he took the precaution of making it look as though Barrington had simply had a car accident. His influence in the city ensured that no one suspected the truth. Or, at least, no one except the widow. When Katherine refused to sell him her shares in the business, he knocked her out and left her in the garage in her car with the engine running, expecting her to be asphyxiated, and her death taken as suicide in grief for her husband's death. However, Gordon and Katherine had been friends with Nick Knight while in England, and she had sent him a telegram about her husband's death. Nick had promptly come to Toronto, and was staying at their house. He was therefore able to rescue Katherine from the garage. Nick persuaded Aristotle to provide Katherine and her secretary, Madelyn Pinchot, with new identities; and Katherine went abroad. She stayed away for decades; but she continued to maintain her control of half of Barrington Stanton Industries through proxy votes. As a result, she had the satisfaction of being able to thwart Jeremy Stanton whenever she could. He loathed her. But he had no idea where she was, and couldn't find her. Then, one day in 1994, he ran into a woman on the street who strongly reminded him of Madelyn Pinchot—though she insisted that she was actually a fortune teller named Natasha Perry. Since she wouldn't admit her real identity or tell him where Katherine was, he hired a man to kidnap and torture her for information. She died without speaking. Fortunately for Stanton, "Madame Natasha" had a protegé in the fortune-telling business, Ava Franklin. When she in turn was questioned, she gave up Katherine's address before she died. She had returned to Canada, and was living in Hamilton. Stanton dismissed his hired assassin, deciding instead that he would have the satisfaction of killing Katherine himself. In the meantime, Nick Knight and his partner, Don Schanke, were investigating the murders of Madame Natasha and her assistant. Nick was able to figure out where Katherine was living, and intercepted Stanton before he was able to kill her. Stanton was therefore arrested for murder.
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