Everything's Coming Up Murder Monday

[evelyn_b]

Finished: The Man in the Queue. The best part was how wrong Grant was about everything, from beginning to end. Oh, yeah, he can totally tell that the killer wasn't English based on the dagger and how sneaky the killing was! NOPE. WRONG. He fails so thoroughly on so many levels and it's beautiful. There is absolutely no way he would have closed this

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[lost_spook]

The other true mystery: Is Agatha Troy going to show up? It's a hundred pages in and she hasn't been mentioned

I think when Troy is in a book, she's in it fairly quickly usually, if she's going to be a pov character? Also, do your editions not have the list of characters at the front? All mine do. So you can see, and then not waste your time waiting for her if she isn't going to appear, which she often doesn't, because Alleyn just goes to work like a regular person and doesn't always drag his wife and family into everything all the time. Just sometimes Troy goes to paint someone/something/on a canal boat and people die all over her again.

[evelyn_b]

The library has a bunch of different editions; some of them have the cast of characters in the front, some do not. This one I think does not. The next one, Death at the Bar, does have the list.

So you can see, and then not waste your time waiting for her if she isn't going to appear, which she often doesn't, Alleyn just goes to work like a regular person and doesn't always drag his wife and family into everything all the time.

Aw. But I like wondering. Alleyn's work-life separation is admirable as always, but Troy always brightens the room (with awkwardness).

[lost_spook]

Ah - well, all the UK editions have the Dramatis Personae at the front, or at least all the ones I've ever seen, which was why I was puzzled as to why you wouldn't know when Troy was in the book or not! How could someone take that away from a Ngaio Marsh?? Why would they do that? (I do think, though, that if she's there, she's usually there much earlier than that, I'm afraid!)

Troy will be back, I promise, but it might be a few books yet! ;-)

ETA: I really don't remember Overture to Death. I wonder why? Maybe the spinster thing was bad and I didn't like it? Hmm...

[evelyn_b]

I am reserving judgment on the spinster thing, but it does seem. . . a little more overheated than I would expect from Ngaio Marsh, I guess? Well, I'll wait till I've finished the book before I try to figure out what's going on.

Troy should probably steer clear of this ambiguously misogynist hothouse, anyway, and do some portrait commissions for American millionaires or something. It's all for the best!

[osprey_archer]

I had to sit on my hands when you were fretting about McConnell's possible infidelity to Toto. It was too good a reveal to spoil!

[evelyn_b]

I WAS SO WORRIED. I kept thinking, "Oh, no, really? No! Finch-Lenox is NOT going to go there. . . is he??"

And then he didn't! COMFORT RESTORED.