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Moorich2@aol.com>
SPOILER
> Now back to Kersh. It has been more than a quarter
of a century since I
read
> PRELUDE and my memory is hazy but ***(Caution for
Spoiler)*** I didn't
have
> the foggiest notion of who the murderer was when I
finished. But I loved
the
> book. One other friend read it and hated it for that
very reason. She
> needed closure. In NOIR FICTION Duncan notes that
the only "winner" of
the
> book was the murderer. Love it or hate
it.
Are you thinking of another book, Richard? The murderer is
clearly identified in the first couple of paragraphs of
chapter 42. 1:"The murderer sat down to write. He had sent
his suit to be cleaned by Sam Sabbatini." 2:"Tobit Osbert
found a certain refined pleasure in the contemplation of the
fact that Sam Sabbatini...was washing away evidence."
Al
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