First of all, I am so charmed by Ralph's response to Laurie saying he loves him!!
I have all these possibilities churning around, but I know I'll just have to wait patiently. Yay for the detective convention of gathering the suspects together!
Do you know how many times this morning I've checked to see if today's chapter was posted yet?
Come on, people, Enid hasn't been squirreling away cash in her room; she's been paying off a blackmailer! Queen knows it. (With Galliard and/or Tinker starring as the blackmailer(s).)
You've currently got me tossing a coin between Henry and Robert as the killer. Robert was the one behaving like a man with a guilty conscience, but this little killing spree coincided with when Henry probably noticed someone cooking the books at the foundry to pay the blackmailer.
It's diabolical of you to play the "detective has crucial evidence that he won't share until the last chapter" game with us. Is that an Ellery Queen mystery trademark?
You're killing me, you know. The killer sabotaged the brakes of the car Ralph was to drive. We love Ralph, and we don't want anything bad to happen to him. Understood?
And yes, Laurie, you should say, "I love you," more often.
So it's good I resisted my urge to just plop all three remaining installments up today?
And I'm giving you a bad impression of EQ novels, I fear. In those, which are generally told from Ellery's pov, the reader has all the clues -- that's his trademark, actually, that he "plays fair" and you know what you need to know to solve it yourself (the Challenge to the Reader was actually written in to his early novels, telling you 'ok, now you know everything - solve it').
I started out trying to do that here, but Laurie as our pov is limiting... And I wanted hot sex. So there are some facts that won't come out until Ellery starts talking next chapter.
I love having this from Laurie's POV. They yummy Laurie/Ralph moments are more than worth the limits on POV.
But when Ellery says, "I'm looking at the entire case, things Dakin has told me that you don't know yet," that's when I think you aren't "playing fair."
I don't mind though. Even if you are withholding some clues, you've given us plenty of others to work with. And my fertile imagination is providing a myriad of interpretations.
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I have all these possibilities churning around, but I know I'll just have to wait patiently. Yay for the detective convention of gathering the suspects together!
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Come on, people, Enid hasn't been squirreling away cash in her room; she's been paying off a blackmailer! Queen knows it. (With Galliard and/or Tinker starring as the blackmailer(s).)
You've currently got me tossing a coin between Henry and Robert as the killer. Robert was the one behaving like a man with a guilty conscience, but this little killing spree coincided with when Henry probably noticed someone cooking the books at the foundry to pay the blackmailer.
It's diabolical of you to play the "detective has crucial evidence that he won't share until the last chapter" game with us. Is that an Ellery Queen mystery trademark?
You're killing me, you know. The killer sabotaged the brakes of the car Ralph was to drive. We love Ralph, and we don't want anything bad to happen to him. Understood?
And yes, Laurie, you should say, "I love you," more often.
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And I'm giving you a bad impression of EQ novels, I fear. In those, which are generally told from Ellery's pov, the reader has all the clues -- that's his trademark, actually, that he "plays fair" and you know what you need to know to solve it yourself (the Challenge to the Reader was actually written in to his early novels, telling you 'ok, now you know everything - solve it').
I started out trying to do that here, but Laurie as our pov is limiting... And I wanted hot sex. So there are some facts that won't come out until Ellery starts talking next chapter.
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But when Ellery says, "I'm looking at the entire case, things Dakin has told me that you don't know yet," that's when I think you aren't "playing fair."
I don't mind though. Even if you are withholding some clues, you've given us plenty of others to work with. And my fertile imagination is providing a myriad of interpretations.
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