In one novel, the spiritualistic medium Patrick Seton commits this crime against Dr. Lyte, a doctor who had caused a woman's death during an abortion.
In one novel, the spiritualistic medium Patrick Seton commits this crime against Dr. Lyte, a doctor who had caused a woman's death during an abortion. In Territorial Rights, Robert Leaver commits this crime against his former lover Mark Curran. In another novel, a fraudulent German psychoanalyst named Hildegard Wolff becomes the target of this crime after two men come into her office and both pretend to be Lord Lucan. This crime appears in The Bachelors, Aiding and Abetting, and Loitering with Intent, in which Fleur Talbot suspects that Sir Quentin Oliver founded The Autobiographical Association to facilitate this crime. Nancy Hawkins befriends the Polish dressmaker Wanda, who commits suicide after becoming the victim of this crime in (*) A Far Cry From Kensington. The housekeeper Mabel Pettigrew successfully commits this crime against LisaBrooke but fails to do so against Godfrey Colston in Memento Mori. For 10 points, name this crime which is committed in nearly every Muriel Spark novel and which is successfully thwarted in "A Scandal in Bohemia" and "The Purloined Letter."
In one novel, the spiritualistic medium Patrick Seton commits this crime against Dr. Lyte, a doctor who had caused a woman's death during an abortion.
{blackmail} [or {extortion}]