Dr. Armstrong is a suspect in Mrs. Rogers' death because he is the one who finds her dead body, and at first, he doesn't tell anyone she has died. He finally says:
"I thought it better to wait until you had had your breakfast before telling you of a sad piece of news. Mrs. Rogers died in her sleep."
Mrs. Rogers had gone to pieces and collapsed the night before at the news of Marston's death. Since Dr. Armstrong gave Mrs. Rogers a glass of brandy that evening to buck her up and tended to her—and was alone with her before she died—there is good reason to suspect that he might have murdered her. He certainly had the opportunity, if not a clear motive. Of course, the chief suspicion falls on the Mr. Rogers.
Both Dr. Armstrong and the Rogers were complicit in the deaths of people in their care. The Rogers let the woman they were caring for die by waiting too long to call a doctor and thereby inherited a nice sum of money. Dr. Armstrong killed a patient by doing an operation while drunk.
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