The Queens of Crime

Dorothy and the other women celebrate the fact that Dorothy successfully stole the luggage locker key from May’s purse without the police knowing. Dorothy speculates that the police had no idea that the key was in the purse. Dorothy tries to open the locker but struggles to do so on her own. After initially rejecting Margery’s help, Dorothy finally opens the locker with Margery’s assistance. Inside, they find a letter from May.

All the women grab for the papers, including the usually stoic Agatha. Dorothy chastises the women, reminding them that they can’t read May’s last words in public and that the document is worthy of respect, not excitement. The women ride silently to their hotel, where Emma arranges for them to dine in private and examine the letter. Satisfied that the women have calmed down, Dorothy begins to read the letter aloud to the others.

May’s letter confirms that she had an affair with an unnamed married man for six months before her death, that she was sexually assaulted, and that she was pressured into having an abortion. She refused to have an abortion. Shortly after, when she saw “familiar names” in a newspaper article about a missing violinist, she worried that her life was in danger.