ext_74584 ([identity profile] karinmollberg.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] steepholm 2014-06-01 07:41 pm (UTC)

Slightly beside the point but drifting along joyously...

Sayers lets Lord Peter Wimsey (refer to) his epoch-making work "The Murderer’s Vade-Mecum” or "101 Ways of Causing Sudden Death” though it never appears to get ready, perhaps due to an overload of material. We also don´t see him working on it, easily distracted as he is by collecting incunabila.

There is also a "Manual of Detection" by one Jedediah Berry and all of this invariably makes me think of Chesterton´s "Club of Men Misunderstood", those "Four Faultless Felones" of his as opposed to O´Brien´s "Third Policeman".

Isn´t Bulgakov´s Master writing The Book, too? Like Dostoyevsky his Doppelgänger and Faust but I´ll leave it there...I think. Endless as it is!

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