In which Charis and Sharon wrap up our discussion of MURDER MUST ADVERTISE with an early reveal of the whodunnit and then our longest conversation yet on the howdunnit, various side quests offered up by the double identity plot, cricket, the novel’s sympathy for the murderer, and more!
This episode covers events and revelations from chapter seven through the end of the book and reveals the whodunnit.
Shownotes:
- We refer back to Charis’ framing of “the mystery of the mystery” and “the mystery of the plot,” which we discuss at more length in episode 22.
- We bring up James Joyce’s Ulysses in our discussion of the catalogue of capitalistic advertisement.
- Sharon refers to a proleptic moment in Strong Poison in our discussion of the opening of chapter 11. The full quote is: “Wimsey was accustomed to say, when he was an old man and more talkative even than usual, that the recollection of that Christmas at Duke’s Denver had haunted him in nightmares, every night regularly, for the following twenty years.”
- Peter’s quotation of “Tears, idle tears” comes from a Tennyson poem.
- Charis brings up the film Remember the Titans and Sharon brings up the TV show Friday Night Lights in the preamble of our conversation about the cricket.
