In the first story, Mrs Lancaster’s child dies of an illness, and his ghost goes to keep a long-dead child company. However, there’s an odd little echo of The Lamp in BTPOMT.
(It wouldn’t be the first time Christie had re-used a name for different characters.)
In The Lamp she seems to be a widow with a child, but in the later book we’re told she had an illegal abortion as a young girl, which resulted in her being unable to bear children. I doubt the Mrs Lancaster in The Lamp is the same lady as in the other novels, as her story in the former doesn’t match up with what we’re told in By The Pricking of My Thumbs.
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