Is it that all three have, or are supposed to have, one parent who is mentally unbalanced? Ann Shapland claims a mother who is senile (it turns out at the end that the senile woman is not her real mother, she just "borrowed" her as a smoke screen), Violet has a father who is an escaped convict and is "not quite right", David Angcatell's mother (now dead) is described as "unbalanced" and "an invalid".
If I'm correct, someone else please volunteer to write the next riddle - I've just written two in the "Victim" string!
Yes, the guests in "Victory ball" dressed up as the "comedie del arte" characters including Harlequin,, but there is nothing related to Harlequin in "Evil under the sun". What I mean is a common theme to all three - the book and the two stories.
Is it that, in the murders committed, the murderer "couldn't have possibly done it", or that it was nearly impossible for them to have done it, so they engineered an alibi...?
Very close! In all murders the way they seem, the murderer "couldn't have done it", but something specific is done in all three cases to make it look like that.
Oh! Does one of the characters masquerade as the victim in each case? I remember SPOILER in Victory Ball one of the guests pretends to be the victim by switching costumes, Mrs Redfern pretends to be Arlena, and a similar thing happened in the Dead Harlequin, did it not?
Oh! Does one of the characters masquerade as the victim in each case? I remember SPOILER in Victory Ball one of the guests pretends to be the victim by switching costumes, Mrs Redfern pretends to be Arlena, and a similar thing happened in the Dead Harlequin, did it not?
Right! SPOILER: In both stories, the murderer masquerades as the victim after the murder, in order to confuse the time-schedule of the murder, and in "Evil under the sun" the murderer's female accomplice masquerades as the victim before the murder, with the same purpose. In "The dead Harlequin" it is the victim's brother, and his identification as the victim is supported when his female accomplice calls out to him, pretending he is the victim. Incidentially, in all three cases there is a man-woman team of criminals, cooperating to make the time-shift believable.
All 3 Grew up with Sisters, Mark's Sister was Conway's Daughter, Jerry's Sister Moved To Lymstock with him and Iris's sister was the 1st Victim in Sparcling Cyanide
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I mean in each case is one Parent illegitimate?
If I'm correct, someone else please volunteer to write the next riddle - I've just written two in the "Victim" string!
What is the connection between the stories:
"The dead Harlequin"
"The affair at the Victory Ball"
and the book
"Evil under the Sun".
Your turn!
Here are my characters:
Tuppence Beresford, Marina Gregg, and Mrs Burton-Cox
Mark Gaskell, Jerry Burton and Iris Marle.
All 3 Grew up with Sisters, Mark's Sister was Conway's Daughter, Jerry's Sister Moved To Lymstock with him and Iris's sister was the 1st Victim in Sparcling Cyanide
Conway's daughter was Mark's wife, not his sister.
All three are involved in two murders each.
Are they all tied to someone