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Throughout the Fairway Players&#8217; staging of All My Sons and the charity appeal for little Poppy Reswick&#8217;s life-saving medical treatment, the murderer hid in plain sight. Yet we believe they gave themselves away. In writing. The evidence is all here, between the lines, waiting to be discovered. Will you accept the challenge? 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