Ingenious and diabolical

   I don't watch crime shows anymore, nor follow real life trials, but If given the chance, I think I'd have to tune in to the coffee-mug murder.  I remember the Hitchcock story of the woman who murdered her husband with a frozen leg of lamb, then thawed it and served it to the investigators who, during the meal, were stymied as to what type of bludgeon could have clobbered the deceased so effectively, and yet was nowhere to be found.  The coffee mug was not quite so neatly disposed of, though I understand the recently widowed woman cleaned up all the pieces and shards, bagged them, and offered it to the police, who declined it at the time as not necessary for an accident investigation.  Not until the medical examiners removed the pieces of mug embedded in the old man's skull did they suspect he couldn't have fallen 10 separate times on the lethal mug.  I can't help but wonder what the couple's last breakfast conversation was about.  I do understand  that tennis referees tend to have the last word.....and it probably was not "love."