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schemingreaderI just finished The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club. I am so grateful to all of your flisters who insisted that I must read these, especially ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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placet.
But what is the deal with Wimsey persuading criminals to off themselves? How many of these novels end that way?
Did she have some kind of objection to the court system? I know Patrick O'Brian did, but his were historical novels. (Almost wrote "navals"--they were that too!)
mechiaeh and catrinella and their fabulous crossover placet. But what is the deal with Wimsey persuading criminals to off themselves? How many of these novels end that way?
Did she have some kind of objection to the court system? I know Patrick O'Brian did, but his were historical novels. (Almost wrote "navals"--they were that too!)
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Date: 2006-08-09 03:44 am (UTC)I think that's the only one. Ellery Queen did that a few more times than Peter did....
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Date: 2006-08-09 08:14 am (UTC)It's more a case of giving them an opportunity to Do the Decent Thing, rather than allowing them to escape justice. I'm not sure she had any objection to the court system as such - she was rather more interested in the resolution of the moral dilemma.
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Date: 2006-08-09 02:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-20 09:54 am (UTC)I just finished this one a few days ago. Are you reading them in chronological order? (I'm making an attempt to, anyway - read Whose Body? and Unpleasantness so far.)
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Date: 2006-08-20 10:00 am (UTC)You don't have to catch up on my journal! Though it would make me insanely happpy if you read my fics. I do a lot of real-life posts about boring things. For example, i was thinking of writing a post now explaining why the hell I'm up at 6AM on a Sunday morning. But I might try to make myself go back to sleep...
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Date: 2006-08-20 10:07 am (UTC)I could try to sleep again, but I'd only have an hour to do so, and I wasn't sleeping all that well...