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Melissa Clutterbuck
Melissa Clutterbuck is recorded in 1 distinct story.
The town treasurer and explicitly identified wife of Deputy Clutterbuck. Gaunt directs her to damage Lenore Potter’s flowerbeds; Keeton’s separate suspicions about her are not treated as fact.
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Needful Things
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The town treasurer is one of the people Keeton paranoidly suspects of persecuting him; his suspicion is not established fact. No kinship with Andy is inferred solely from the surname.
Needful Things ↗ (paid link)By Stephen King
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This explicit statement resolves Melissa as Deputy Clutterbuck’s wife. The earlier surname-only caution is superseded by the inspected household identification.
Needful Things ↗ (paid link)By Stephen King