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Originally Posted by Dazrin
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What clues were missing for you? I thought most of the major ones were there (motive, opportunity, etc.)
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I thought most of the pieces were there too. It seemed to me that the book was missing the distractions necessary to make obvious clues more obscure. Pretty much as soon as the link between Freke and Levy was made apparent he became prime suspect, and nothing ever really muddied the water after that.
At the time that I read the Dowager Duchess monologue (in which she makes so many comments about Jews) near the end of chapter 3, I wondered if it seemed so long winded, over the top, and out of place simply because Sayers was trying so hard to hide the fact that this was where she was dropping the critical clue that gave everything else away.