Does anyone else here feel like the suspect list keeps growing while the likelihood of the suspects being guilty becomes more clouded? I am suspicious of Sir Julien for sure, but as I commented, I'm not sure if my suspicions are that he's involved in the murder or if he's involved with Mrs. Levy. I find the fact that he loved her and never married even after she did, highly suspicious. I still suspect Mr. Levy may have had a hand in his own disappearance and now the info coming from Sir Julien about his visit...well, something is going on there.
I also want to say that while the other servants seem to sympathize with Bunter(after all he has to pull all these round the clock tasks for an employer with fanatical crime solving tendencies), I think Bunter really enjoys being a part of it. I think he likes playing the little roles that he does and helping on the forensic side of things. I think it probably makes his life as a gentleman's gentleman far more exciting and extraordinary than most and he realizes and appreciates that.
I also find myself interested in the forensics of the case. They also have me questioning the time and era the book was written in because I'm wondering what type of mystery Sayers writes. Is she a writer who weaves all kinds of vagaries for her reader and then whams them in the end with an unexpected twist we could never foresee? Or is she the kind of writer who leaves subtle clues along the way, allowing us to see and analyze the clues as her characters do and thus giving us a chance to solve the crime as well. Time will tell!
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It's different for each mystery, some i've actually been very close to figuring out and some were completely impossible to figure out, i think.
I agree that Bunter enjoys what he does. He loves Peter and vice versa. Their relationship reminds me of the Sam/Frodo relationship kind of. A gentleman and his manservant. I don't think we as 21st century people will ever get that.
I believe these are set in the 1920s. Which is interesting as flappers were an american thing and don't show up here at all.
Well, England didn't have jazz or the prohibition, how could they have boozey, loose women like flappers?
:)
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