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Originally Posted by astrangerhere
Yeah, his getaway kind of smacked of the "rich enough to get away with it," which in my line of work is irksome as hell.
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He was also an MP, so between money and influence he was always going to be a hard one to pin anything on.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I don't know if he got away because of being rich. I think he got away because of being clever.
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And yes, we hit the trifecta - he was also clever.
But how did you all feel about Moriarty in the
Sherlock Holmes stories? He got away with murder and more, time and again.
The Man in the Brown Suit turned out to be a stand-alone novel, so Christie never got a chance to turf Pedlar over a waterfall, but I suspect sequels were in mind when she wrote this.
Edited to add: Actually, Moriarty is a bad example - since Doyle makes rather a hash of the chronology in his attempts to kill of Holmes and then rescue him again. Maybe Carl Peterson (in Sapper's
Bulldog Drummond stories) would be better, but there are many choices. Hopefully you get the idea, an arch-villain would have suited the type of story.