Chaper 17 Summary

Vandergelt takes Lady Baskerville to Luxor to turn her in to the authorities. Amelia and Emerson realize they both had suspected the same person and were correct, although for different reasons. Lady Baskerville killed her husband by inserting the hat pin into the base of his brain, and death was immediate, but not so detectable. Lady Baskerville then seduced Armadale and let him think it was Lord Baskerville's distress over the discovery of the affair that had killed him. Armadale fled to the hills but returned one night to see his love. She found out where he was living, went to the cave and killed him with the hat pin. Hassan, the servant, had blackmailed her, so she killed him as well. When Lady Baskerville was informed that Arthur was the new Lord Baskerville, she was about to kill him as well but...