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Dial M for Murder ending:

summary so far: An angry husband wants to kill his wife, who had been having an affair with an author of crime novels. He hires a man that he had gone to college with to murder his wife while he is at a dinner with his wife's lover. He had thought everything out: he hid a key under the stair carpet, he had planned to call, he had drawn money from the bank, he had made the scene look like a robbery gone wrong, but something did go wrong. The phone call to the house was suppose to take place at 3 minutes till 11, in order to draw his wife out of the bedroom and to the phone, where the murderer could strangle her. But, his watch had stopped and caused the murder to fail. The wife grabbed scissors while being strangled and killed her assailant. But, the husband's framing sent the wife to jail and on death row. The murder story writer comes to the house to talk to the husband. He devises a plan to get the wife out of death row by making the husband tell a story about how he hired someone to kill her. He doesn't know that this is what the husband actually did, but he gets everything right: the key, the door, the phone call, the stockings, the money, the letter. This is where we stopped watching.

end to story: The crime writer and the husband are in the house devising a plan to save the wife. He weaves a tale that in fact is not a tale, but a story about what had actually happened on that dreary night. The jury is unbelieving and the outcome that he will save his wife and have himself spend only a year in jail is doubtful. The detective strolls into the courtroom and sits at the prosecution's mahogany desk. "That's a very interesting story, but is it a story after all."

Having had the wife tell him the real truth after all, and recovering the husband's fishy bank accounts, and devising a plan to have the author lure him into the courtroom, the detective was armed to win. He asked the husband a series of fast, hard, indisputable, inquisitive, and pertinent questions. One by one they were answered with speed, as if they had been rehearsed. Then came a question that seemed to have no relevance, but the pace of the husband's mind was too fast to stop. "What is your boss's phone number?" asked the detective. As the husband rattled off a seven digit code of guilt, the detective took a look at the jury and gave a quick, yet indisputable smile. "So you didn't have to call your wife at all for the number, did you?" The husband's tale was unraveled with the unsurmountable pile of evidence against him and as it was all being explained, his wife and her lover entered through the back of the courtroom. The husband went to prison for too many years to remember and the wife and author moved to New York, where he wrote a story about the occurrence entitled "Dial M for Murder."

evidence: physical evidence: the detective could find the money that the man had had and find his fingerprints on it the man could also find the fingerprints on the stockings that he had planted they could look at the ashes from the fireplace to see that there were fragments of a stocking

other evidence: the detective could question people he would question the wife and the husband and find that the stories do not match up he could also question the author and ask him about the affair, which would give motive for the husband to kill his wife they could question the people at the table with the husband before he made the call to his wife lastly, they should question the husband again and again to make sure he kept his story straight and compare it to the wife's