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nineveh_uk ([personal profile] nineveh_uk) wrote2008-06-12 04:36 pm

Eleven Things that Weren’t Written by Dorothy L. Sayers, VI

'Ware spoilers!

Five Red Herrings

Page 21.

Wimsey’s air of idleness had left him. He searched the ground around the easel and stool carefully, crawling over the heather, and wincing as fragments of gorse worked their way through his socks. He sat up, and stared at Dalziel.

‘We’re looking for a murderer, Sergeant. Somebody’s pocketed the flake white.’

[identity profile] tudorpot.livejournal.com 2008-06-12 04:04 pm (UTC)(link)
I borrowed an audio 'play' version of FRH and sadly, they fool that adapted it - wrote almost exactly this. Spoiled the book- remind me to never borrow abridged/adapted audio books. slaps self

[identity profile] nineveh-uk.livejournal.com 2008-06-13 12:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh dear! I do wonder how they dealt with it in the TV adaptation. (Do listen to the abridged audio books read by Edward Petherbridge, though - he does an excellent Harriet.)