![]() Sophia tells Charles that she can’t marry him until the matter is cleared up. The autopsy reveals that Leonides was poisoned with his own eserine-based eye medicine via an insulin injection. Due to the war, the whole family has been living with him in a sumptuous but ill-proportioned house called “Three Gables”, the crooked house of the title. Hayward returns home and reads a death notice in The Times: Sophia’s grandfather, the wealthy entrepreneur Aristide Leonides, has died, aged 85. They put off getting engaged until the end of the war when they will be reunited in England. ![]() ![]() Towards the end of the Second World War, Charles Hayward is in Cairo and falls in love with Sophia Leonides, a smart, successful Englishwoman who works for the Foreign Office. ![]()
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