The story started with a conversation between Mr. Mayherne who is a lawyer and an investigator, and Leonard Vole who is accused with of killing a rich old lady. All the evidences suggest that Leonard Vole is the murderer because he has a strong motivation which, is money. However, the lawyer tends to believe him because he says that he was in contact with the victim because he liked to be mothered by her since his mom was deaddied when he was very young. That psychological reason seemed enough for the lawyer to believe him. So as long as the lawyer believed in his innocence, us as readers believed in that too. Since the implied readers are regular(word choice) to this situation in this genre where the accused ones are usually innocent. That was very manipulative by the writer (implied author) because what happened here does not really match the generic expectation of the story. Now after the lawyer found Leonard Vole innocent he will try to figure what really happened and will look for a proof to end this case, so he goes to Leonard Vole's wife, Romaine. Wives are typically loyal for to their husbands and would do anything for their spouse. This was not the case. The wife was so mean and even accused her husband with the murder (she appeared to be unfaithful). Which, again shocked the readers because that was not expected from a wife. Since women have a reputation to lie and to be untrusted, and especially because she accused her husband (betrayed him) these two reasons shook her reliability and made Mr. Myaherne even more convinced that the husband is innocent. What makes her even more unreliable is that she was foreign and above all she is an actress. The readers were even more convinced with Leonard Vole's honesty and innocence because Mr. Mayherne is as well. That is very manipulative of Romaine since she is manipulating the cultural expectations into her favor (saving her man). She clearly could manipulate the readers since she su