Miker,
Re your point below:
> I never really understood Brigid's panic. I
didn't
> think Spade's reason for believing her to be
the
> murderer was anywhere close to what it would take
to
> convict her of the crime.
Means, motive, opportunity, and a confession. That generally
works in any court in the land.
But the point isn't whether or not Brigid would get convicted
in court in real life. It's that, in the ocntext of the
novel, her identity was concealed until the end, but the
clues needed to identify her were available to the reader.
This made TMF, structurally, a fair-play whodunit, but did so
without vitiating the novelistic qualities that make it a
classic.
JIM DOHERTY
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