Argumentative Essay On Dail M For Murder

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For this master class I went to Regent University to see Dail M for Murder and this is what happened. Tony Wendice, a professional tennis player, is married to wealthy woman Margot who has had an affair with a crime-fiction writer Mark Halliday . When Tony retires from tennis because Margot's dislike of his long schedule hedoes but , he secretly discovers the affair and has plans to kill her for revenge but also to ensure that her money will continue to finance his way of living .Tony invites an old friend from a University, Charles Alexander Swann , to his London flat. Tony is aware that Swann has become a criminal from here and there , and has been secretly following Swann so he can blackmail him into murdering Margot. Tony tells Swann about …show more content…

After tricking Swann into leaving his fingerprints on the letter, Tony offers to pay him 1,000$ to kill Margot; if Swann refuses, Tony will turn him in to the police as Margot's blackmailer and set him up. Swann's credibility, in denying Tony's accusation, would be hurt by his criminal history.When Swann agrees, Tony explains his plan: the following day he takes Mark to a party, leaving Margot at home and hiding her latchkey outside the front door of their flat. Swann is to sneak in when Margot is asleep and hide behind the curtains in front of the doors to the garden. At eleven o'clock, Tony will telephone the flat from the party. Swann must kill Margot when she answers the phone, open the French doors, leave signs suggesting a burglary gone wrong, and exit through the front door, hiding the key again.The next night, Swann goes into the flat while Margot is in bed, and waits. At the party, Tony discovers his watch has stopped, so he phones the flat later than intended. When Margot comes to the phone, Swann tries to choke her with his scarf but that doesn’t work out in his favor , and she manages to grab a pair of scissors and kill …show more content…

Before the police arrive, Tony moves what he thinks is Margot's latchkey from Swann's pocket into her handbag, plants Mark's letter on Swann, and destroys Swann's scarf, replacing it with Margot's own stocking in an attempt to set her up.The day after, Tony persuades Margot to hide the fact that he told her not to call the police immediately. Chief Inspector Hubbard arrives and questions them, and Margot makes several conflicting statements. When Hubbard says Swann must have entered through the front door, Tony falsely claims to have seen Swann at the time Margot's handbag was stolen, and says that Swann made a copy of her key. Hubbard does not believe this because no key was found on Swann's body the day of it happening. Hubbard arrests Margot after concluding that she killed Swann for blackmailing her. Margot is found guilty and sentenced to death.Some months later, on the day before Margot's scheduled execution, Mark visits Tony, saying he has devised a story for Tony to tell the police in order to save Margot's life. Mark's "story" is what did actually happen: that Tony bribed Swann to murder Margot. Tony says the story is too

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