I don't care how some unknown whodunit author described the cleanliness level of a character about to get axed. Gimme what actually happened, like a real historian, or don't gimme anything at all. Horsfield also talked to a number of women and reports their feelings about cleaning. Most of them, not surprisingly, clean most fastidiously for their mothers. Some of them, undoubtedly, also clean for their cleaning ladies.
Fear is a great motivator, after all.
I know the alcoholics by the bottles tucked behind the bed in the spare room. . . . I know which wife is having an affair. . . . I see things and I hear things. . . . As if you didn't have enough to worry about. No names are named in this innocuous little piece of fluff, which appears to be mostly a compilation of previous magazine articles.