I believe Captain Carruthers thought Taurenil was killed during the Lunch, so Lucas’ little stunt proved it must have been at some other time as everyone would have heard the harpsichord being dropped.
Unless the sound was covered by something louder like a Church Bell.
So the timetable is between "Taurenil last seen" and "found dead", at a point of time when the Bell was rung ~
So maybe high noon/12 o’clock, because some abbeys ring the bell every full hour
Ah yes, Poirot, he sees your point, non? The little grey cells, they are finally finding exercise, as now the time-table, as Mme. Vixen above says, it is now in question.
Alors, my dear Inspector Japp, I request that you gather all of the suspects into the drawing room, for Poirot, he has a revelation to make. Come, Captain Hastings!
I do feel Cadugan and Lucas split the Holmes/Watson, Poirot/Hastings dynamic more evenly, to the credit of T! and Rich. Neither is a sidekick who has to play idiot narrator.
I also find element of Cluedo (Clue in the USA), in that finding the murderer means finding the evidence. We have a weapon (the needle), now the time of the deed will be wrung out of the abbey’s staff, and eventually we may even find out where the murder actually occurred.
t! and I discussed the strengths and weaknesses of Cadugan and Lucas separately and how they’d compliment each other as a team. They aren’t deliberately written to be a counter to the traditional sleuth/sidekick, but I discovered years ago when Lucas was trying to solve the murder in the "Bardic Competition" storyline that while he’s a natural with etiquette and people, he relies on Cadugan’s natural hunting/naturalist instincts as well. That’s what we wanted to emphasize with this storyline.
As much as I enjoy the books and understand the use of having a Watson/Hastings, i always found the counterpart’s treatment of them annoyingly and frustratingly demeaning (to the point I still haven’t read all the Poirots). After all, Watson was a doctor of medicine, which meant passing advanced schooling.
THESE 2 are infinitely more satisfying because they are complementary. And demonstrate much more talent/skill/artistry of writing. Christie, although she was one of the most creative plot designers ever, and had salient points to make socially, wasn’t the best writer. (Heresy to some, i know. Too bad.) Whereas these 2, even with their individual biases of detecting, don’t focus on one outlook each, so neither comes across as idiotic.
that you and t! delved into analysis and ensured showcasing strengths of both fits perfectly with your motif of not relying on black/white thinking, now that i think of it…
Well, in that dynamic people forgot the more important about the two originals: Watson wasn’t a sidekick, he was the only true friend Holmes Watson.
It’s more, so the novels advocates about the profits of center your attention in the time in the same Watson achieved sucess above Holmes.
In the Adventure of Silver Blaze, for example, Watson gains a lot of time because he saw the prints return not far away.
There are a more important fact. Homosexuality was forbidden in England.
It’s strange that Watson married three times and his wives dissapeared abruptly.
There are many critics who thinks so Conan Doyle want to say something about this but there are speculations.
The fact is Watson is more important to Sherlock Holmes than nobody wants to say. Yes, he could resolve crimes but is John who calm him and give him happiness and tranquility.
Without a Clue moves far away from Holmes’ canon but the last lines say what the books describe
"perhaps Scotland Yard did not have the evaluable assistance, the keen insight and the extraordinary patience of doctor John Watson. My friend"
And it’s some true about Holmes, he hadn’t so many friends
I don’t know you but i can’t stay in the same place than Sherlock (and not a many of his neighbors)
Too many people have their opinion of Watson set from the TV show, where Rathbone insisted on being the center of attention. Watson in the books is, like Holmes both Man of Learning and Man of Action. He just has a different specialty. In ‘A Study in Scarlet’, he diagnoses the killer’s condition with a touch. When Holmes is trying to fake being deathly ill, he keeps Watson and the far side of the room because he’s well aware a dab of face paint and some beeswax will fool a mean old geezer but Watson will see through the fakery at a glance. Watson is also the one who broke Holmes of his addiction to cocaine.
Also, if you look at Doyle’s correspondence he says he screwed up in ‘The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier’ as he had forgotten that he’d already killed off Mary Watson. The good doctor was supposed to only have the one wife, and to remain faithful to her even after her death.
I cannot stand the bumbling Watson portrayals. They’re cheap, unnecessary, and they rob the stories of potential.
I was rehearsing a radio drama with a friend one day, he was writer/director/Holmes, and I was Watson, it was an adaptation of "The Hound of the Baskervilles."
We’re on the moors. The hound is gaining. He says, "Quick, Watson, hand me your pistol!"
I’d read on ahead, so I immediately replied, "F*ck you, Holmes, I’m a trained soldier – *I’ll* do the shooting, thank you very much."
When he was done laughing, he took the script home and rewrote the entire part.
More than a few Colombo episodes also hinged on when the murder actually occurred and the time alibi of the villain gets busted. "Detective, you know I was driving back from San Francisco when my business partner was killed. He was long dead by the time I found the body. The coroner said so himself."
"Well, that’s the thing. It turns out…"
Artistically, wow! on the crowd running scene and the varying angles 🙂
based on her calm reconsideration, i’d say the Captain is pretty much agreeing Maula’s no more a suspect than others…
And i kind of feel sorry for the Kingswords, that those who thought the yell was testing the sound theory were correct, and they don’t need to save them Duke boys by inflicting violence.
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Timetable?
I believe Captain Carruthers thought Taurenil was killed during the Lunch, so Lucas’ little stunt proved it must have been at some other time as everyone would have heard the harpsichord being dropped.
Unless the sound was covered by something louder like a Church Bell.
So the timetable is between "Taurenil last seen" and "found dead", at a point of time when the Bell was rung ~
So maybe high noon/12 o’clock, because some abbeys ring the bell every full hour
I feel like that old detective shows (Murder, she wrote, Diagnosis: Murder, Hercules Poirot…)
Ah yes, Poirot, he sees your point, non? The little grey cells, they are finally finding exercise, as now the time-table, as Mme. Vixen above says, it is now in question.
Alors, my dear Inspector Japp, I request that you gather all of the suspects into the drawing room, for Poirot, he has a revelation to make. Come, Captain Hastings!
I do feel Cadugan and Lucas split the Holmes/Watson, Poirot/Hastings dynamic more evenly, to the credit of T! and Rich. Neither is a sidekick who has to play idiot narrator.
I also find element of Cluedo (Clue in the USA), in that finding the murderer means finding the evidence. We have a weapon (the needle), now the time of the deed will be wrung out of the abbey’s staff, and eventually we may even find out where the murder actually occurred.
t! and I discussed the strengths and weaknesses of Cadugan and Lucas separately and how they’d compliment each other as a team. They aren’t deliberately written to be a counter to the traditional sleuth/sidekick, but I discovered years ago when Lucas was trying to solve the murder in the "Bardic Competition" storyline that while he’s a natural with etiquette and people, he relies on Cadugan’s natural hunting/naturalist instincts as well. That’s what we wanted to emphasize with this storyline.
As much as I enjoy the books and understand the use of having a Watson/Hastings, i always found the counterpart’s treatment of them annoyingly and frustratingly demeaning (to the point I still haven’t read all the Poirots). After all, Watson was a doctor of medicine, which meant passing advanced schooling.
THESE 2 are infinitely more satisfying because they are complementary. And demonstrate much more talent/skill/artistry of writing. Christie, although she was one of the most creative plot designers ever, and had salient points to make socially, wasn’t the best writer. (Heresy to some, i know. Too bad.) Whereas these 2, even with their individual biases of detecting, don’t focus on one outlook each, so neither comes across as idiotic.
that you and t! delved into analysis and ensured showcasing strengths of both fits perfectly with your motif of not relying on black/white thinking, now that i think of it…
Well, in that dynamic people forgot the more important about the two originals: Watson wasn’t a sidekick, he was the only true friend Holmes Watson.
It’s more, so the novels advocates about the profits of center your attention in the time in the same Watson achieved sucess above Holmes.
In the Adventure of Silver Blaze, for example, Watson gains a lot of time because he saw the prints return not far away.
There are a more important fact. Homosexuality was forbidden in England.
It’s strange that Watson married three times and his wives dissapeared abruptly.
There are many critics who thinks so Conan Doyle want to say something about this but there are speculations.
The fact is Watson is more important to Sherlock Holmes than nobody wants to say. Yes, he could resolve crimes but is John who calm him and give him happiness and tranquility.
Without a Clue moves far away from Holmes’ canon but the last lines say what the books describe
"perhaps Scotland Yard did not have the evaluable assistance, the keen insight and the extraordinary patience of doctor John Watson. My friend"
And it’s some true about Holmes, he hadn’t so many friends
I don’t know you but i can’t stay in the same place than Sherlock (and not a many of his neighbors)
Too many people have their opinion of Watson set from the TV show, where Rathbone insisted on being the center of attention. Watson in the books is, like Holmes both Man of Learning and Man of Action. He just has a different specialty. In ‘A Study in Scarlet’, he diagnoses the killer’s condition with a touch. When Holmes is trying to fake being deathly ill, he keeps Watson and the far side of the room because he’s well aware a dab of face paint and some beeswax will fool a mean old geezer but Watson will see through the fakery at a glance. Watson is also the one who broke Holmes of his addiction to cocaine.
Also, if you look at Doyle’s correspondence he says he screwed up in ‘The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier’ as he had forgotten that he’d already killed off Mary Watson. The good doctor was supposed to only have the one wife, and to remain faithful to her even after her death.
I cannot stand the bumbling Watson portrayals. They’re cheap, unnecessary, and they rob the stories of potential.
I was rehearsing a radio drama with a friend one day, he was writer/director/Holmes, and I was Watson, it was an adaptation of "The Hound of the Baskervilles."
We’re on the moors. The hound is gaining. He says, "Quick, Watson, hand me your pistol!"
I’d read on ahead, so I immediately replied, "F*ck you, Holmes, I’m a trained soldier – *I’ll* do the shooting, thank you very much."
When he was done laughing, he took the script home and rewrote the entire part.
t!
That’s what’s we need more of from Watson, "F**k you, Holmes!"
I think a nice, solid smack across the chops would have done Holmes a world of good.
t!
More than a few Colombo episodes also hinged on when the murder actually occurred and the time alibi of the villain gets busted. "Detective, you know I was driving back from San Francisco when my business partner was killed. He was long dead by the time I found the body. The coroner said so himself."
"Well, that’s the thing. It turns out…"
So we know the "How", and we’ve narrowed down the "When".
Getting close to gathering all the suspects and revealing the killer.
(Been binge-watching BBC detective series "Death in Paradise")
Time for the final Perry Mason "Get the killer to confess in court" scene, eh?
Will it be the Jilted lover, the jealous librarian who wanted her book, or was it a case of mistaken identity?
Ah ha! It was clearly Col. Mustard in the chicken coop with a comfy pillow!
No no, Colonel Mustard killed the motorist with the monkeywrench.
+5 for the reference! 😄
Artistically, wow! on the crowd running scene and the varying angles 🙂
based on her calm reconsideration, i’d say the Captain is pretty much agreeing Maula’s no more a suspect than others…
And i kind of feel sorry for the Kingswords, that those who thought the yell was testing the sound theory were correct, and they don’t need to save them Duke boys by inflicting violence.
Question for T!, has the story so far provided the clues to who the mirderer is and motive for it?
Murderer (stupid tiny phone screen)
Who is "T!" ?
t!
If this were a 200-page novel, we’d be around page 75.
t!
Then at this point the fish monger should appear with a special on red herrings.
Good on Captain to accept when she’s incorrect!
If I squint real hard, I can make believe there’s a halo over Maula’s head. She is looking both smug and beatific.
Annnnd, this was supposed to have been a reply for strip 3536. Arrrrrrgggghhhh!
Well, time to copy and paste, and then get more coffee.
Can pookas turn themselves into coffee, or cups of?