She will be defended by the same attorney she tricked into getting Leonard acquitted in the first place. The mistress and Leonard are about to leave Romaine (called "Christine" in all film and television versions, and most stage productions after the original Broadway production, until the 2016 television version) to be arrested for perjury, when Romaine grabs a knife and stabs and kills Leonard. In her subsequent rewriting of the story as a play she added a young mistress for Leonard, who does not appear until the end of the play. Over time, Christie grew dissatisfied with this abrupt and dystopian ending (one of the few Christie endings in which a murderer escapes punishment), which would have had to be sanitised in any event for stage and film versions where such a brutal crime going unpunished would have been unthinkable at the time. The original short story ended abruptly with the major twist-Romaine's revelation that Leonard Vole was indeed guilty.
It is then revealed that Leonard Vole actually did kill Emily French. She first gives the prosecution its strongest evidence, then fabricates new evidence that discredits her testimony, believing, correctly as it turns out, that her impeachment as an unfaithful wife would improve Leonard's chances of acquittal far more than her testimony for the defence.
THE WITNESS STORY FREE
Romaine's decision is part of a complicated plan to free her husband. When his wife, Romaine, agrees to testify, she does so not in Leonard's defence but as a witness for the prosecution.
Unaware that he was a married man, Miss French made him her principal heir, casting suspicion on Leonard.
Leonard Vole is arrested for the murder of Emily French, a wealthy older woman.
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