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Sylvia Doiron knew the police would be coming to question her eventually. Where else were they going to go in Summerside, P.E.I., to speak with an expert about darning needles, the instrument at the centre of a major RCMP investigation that has folks around this pleasant seaside community of 15,000 wondering whodunit and why?

“It is a real mystery,” says Ms. Doiron, the owner of Pins & Needles, a sewing shop on Water Street. “It has been the talk of Summerside, because Linkletter Farms are a very well-known business around here, and the family is very well-liked. These are good people. Who would do such a thing?”

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Nobody knows. Not the locals, although everybody seems to have a theory about the crime, and not the police, although they continue to press ahead with the investigation. But the facts are these: on Oct. 2 an undisclosed number of sewing needles were discovered in potatoes by workers at the Cavendish Farms plant in New Annan. Production was immediately halted, and the sabotaged spuds were traced to Linkletter Farms, one of the island’s top producers and a family operation with roots in Summerside dating from 1783.