After all, Urquhart doesn’t actually want Boyes’ death to be considered murder. That is a very good point.
What of the judge's roughly matching the dates of Boyes' gastric attacks to the dates when Harriet bought poison? That has to be just coincidence, yes? The dates coinciding with meetings with Harriet works in the sense that, if they are poisoning attempts, Urquhart is following the same formula of doing it on nights when Boyes is going out to Bohemian parties with potential other suspects about.
And were they trial runs or did it take Urquhart several goes to get the fatal dose right? If he's aiming for suicide, he wants it to be soon after the break-up with Harriet rather than months later and before Mrs Wrayburn goes and dies on him. No wonder the version that works is so carefully planned if it took him four tries to get it right. I see him as opportunist and a bit panicky rather than an evil mastermind of cunning. He should have sorted the fake will out much earlier too.
I was going to suggest you wrote the Urquhart trial next. I suppose there is no need for Harriet to be called as a witness alongside Peter.
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Date: 2013-01-10 01:41 pm (UTC)That is a very good point.
What of the judge's roughly matching the dates of Boyes' gastric attacks to the dates when Harriet bought poison? That has to be just coincidence, yes? The dates coinciding with meetings with Harriet works in the sense that, if they are poisoning attempts, Urquhart is following the same formula of doing it on nights when Boyes is going out to Bohemian parties with potential other suspects about.
And were they trial runs or did it take Urquhart several goes to get the fatal dose right? If he's aiming for suicide, he wants it to be soon after the break-up with Harriet rather than months later and before Mrs Wrayburn goes and dies on him. No wonder the version that works is so carefully planned if it took him four tries to get it right. I see him as opportunist and a bit panicky rather than an evil mastermind of cunning. He should have sorted the fake will out much earlier too.
I was going to suggest you wrote the Urquhart trial next. I suppose there is no need for Harriet to be called as a witness alongside Peter.