sentences:  Mrs. Cornelia Potts is the elderly matriarch of the Potts family, and their large fortune was earned by the manufacture of shoes, so when a murder mystery takes place at their New York estate, it's not surprising that the newspapers refer frequently to "the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe".Cornelia has had two husbands—one deceased, one living in the household—and three children by each.Her children by her first husband are all extremely eccentric.