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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
To get back to the book, did anyone pick what I think was an error in the confession letter? In it, Sir Julian wrote to Lord Peter that the Dowager Duchess suggested “a motive for the murder out of what she knew of my previous personal history.”
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Oh, well spotted!
The errors I caught were more niggly ones. One that recurred was the reference to Lord Peter as a "nobleman" which of course he was not, as he himself makes the point in his rather rude put-down of that nice American. Overall, I don't think Sayers was terribly fond of my countrymen.
And continuing on the topic of the nobility, at one point she slips up and refers to Gerald as "Lord Denver." I remember reading a long time ago that originally she intended for Peter to be the younger son of a Marquis and perhaps the reference dated to an early version and was never caught.