I am happy to report that Henry Crawford is dead. He's not only merely dead, he's really most sincerely dead.
I have a few pages written, Edmund is a parson turned detective. I'm thinking of calling this one "Murder Most Mansfield."
Most memorable line so far: "Could Mary have been making that up? I'd been fed red herrings before, by others, true, but if there was a herring queen, Mary Crawford would be sporting that crown." (She hired him to find out who murdered her brother.)
Oh, and this, when Mary convinces her old flame to investigate:
"Someone tosses a radio into your tub and it's an accident?" Her tone was incredulous.
"Maybe he liked to listen to Benny Goodman in the bath?"
I'm a little behind my own schedule, but not very much. I've seven pages written and all plotted out. Also, I've added Marianne as the nymphomaniac femme fatale-wannabe and I've added this little bit for fun:
‘Men from his squadron, hah,’ Middleton said. ‘That won’t be easy, eh. Let’s see, who was there - quite a few of them got shot down, of course - Wentworth’s stationed somewhere in Indochina now, eh, you won’t be able to get hold of him, Crawford, eh, no, he got shot down as well, Wickham was killed in a brawl in Lueneburg just last month, eh, heard about it just the other day, then Bertram, eh, he went mad after D-Day - who else was there? - right, Bingley, last I heard, he was somewhere off in the States, oh, of course, Fitzwilliam, I’m told that whatever he does is all hush-hush, no luck finding him, oh, and Darcy, that was a pity, eh, drowned in his own pond, hah, just after he survived being shot down.’
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I have a few pages written, Edmund is a parson turned detective. I'm thinking of calling this one "Murder Most Mansfield."
Most memorable line so far: "Could Mary have been making that up? I'd been fed red herrings before, by others, true, but if there was a herring queen, Mary Crawford would be sporting that crown." (She hired him to find out who murdered her brother.)
Oh, and this, when Mary convinces her old flame to investigate:
"Someone tosses a radio into your tub and it's an accident?" Her tone was incredulous.
"Maybe he liked to listen to Benny Goodman in the bath?"
"He was a Glenn Miller fan," was her flat reply.
"Then it must have been murder."
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How much did you write today? *evil*
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‘Men from his squadron, hah,’ Middleton said. ‘That won’t be easy, eh. Let’s see, who was there - quite a few of them got shot down, of course - Wentworth’s stationed somewhere in Indochina now, eh, you won’t be able to get hold of him, Crawford, eh, no, he got shot down as well, Wickham was killed in a brawl in Lueneburg just last month, eh, heard about it just the other day, then Bertram, eh, he went mad after D-Day - who else was there? - right, Bingley, last I heard, he was somewhere off in the States, oh, of course, Fitzwilliam, I’m told that whatever he does is all hush-hush, no luck finding him, oh, and Darcy, that was a pity, eh, drowned in his own pond, hah, just after he survived being shot down.’
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But yes, you should feel bad and start writing! ;-)
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