Pleasure Reading 5

During the investigation, an inquest brought a verdict of Rebecca's suicide. However, her cousin and, all the time, her lover Jack Favell attempted to blackmail Maxim, affirming that she could not have intended suicide. At the same time Dr. Baker revealed Rebecca had been suffering from cancer and would had died within a few months, and of course she could never had been pregnant. Such a circumstance explained her behavior when she had manipulated Maxim into killing her faster than she had faced her awful death.