Talk:Dead Man's Folly

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Its going to be adapted into the show.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.222.227.22 (talk) 12:55, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  TV 

message: This claim is in fact missing from the Inspector's interview with Amanda Brewis (in Chapter VII), and I have read the book many times, in more than one edition.  Everyone thereafter speaks of the claim as having been made.  I have never seen public comment on its absence.  Could there have been misguided cuts made to the chapter at some stage?  I have - though not in Christie - known an edition cut something essential to the denouement.  Anyone know?
Rogersansom (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 08:37, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plot Summary: "who claims to have been sent down to the boathouse by Hattie with refreshments for Marlene at around the time that the girl was killed. This sounds very much out of character for Hattie." 

message: The current text is unclear. I made revisions that clarified it, but they were entirely -- and unfairly -- reversed. I'm not going to get into an editing war, so here's what needs to be fixed (each number refers to a paragraph):
1. Missing "the" before activities. Last sentence way too long and confusing.
2. Too many topics crammed into one paragraph. Hattie's interests mentioned without specifying those are her only interests and that's why she appears simple. Secretary first mentioned here but name not included, which makes her naming later on confusing. Pronoun use not clear -- is it Hattie or Amy who is widowed? Sentences jump from George, to Hattie, to Amy, to Hattie: poor organization and flow. Last 3 sentences are completely out of place and should be in a separate paragraph (i.e., #2 is for character background, #3 [new] is for characters/suspects at house. The Legges should be mentioned in #3 as well).
3. Marlene is mentioned without distinguishing her from the other guests (i.e., she was brought in for the day). Second sentence is repetitive: "plays part of victim...pose as dead victim." It's also long and has unnecessary detail (e.g., "player finds the key to enter" -- that's not mentioned anywhere else in the summary). Miss Brewis is misspelled as Brevis. She's introduced here with zero explanation (i.e., she's George's secretary -- which is why I edited her name into the second paragraph). "Narrow the field" -- field of what? That's why I edited it to say "suspect field."
4. Poor sentence construction: "staying in...and whose marriage..." Parallel: "who are staying in...and whose marriage..." 
5. Sentence 1 is confusing -- too many clauses, too many ideas crammed in. Facts needed to clearly delineated, not "Merdell, the old boatman, dead by accident was Marlene's grandfather" (which doesn't even make sense). Again, poor pronoun use: "she received small..." Who is she? The dead woman that was just mentioned? Again, unnecessary facts are included (younger sister has Marlene's small purchases) that add nothing except confusion.
6. More pronoun problems. "Amy had paired him with the orphan young woman Hattie, who gained her wealth on her marriage" -- is "her" Amy or Hattie? That third sentence also crams too much and is confusing -- paired the two, gained wealth, got married, wasn't penniless. Last sentence should be "was buried."
7. The first wife took on Hattie's identity, but she didn't "take on" the Italian tourist one. She created it. Sentence 4 and others have verb tense problems -- should be past, not present ("switched between," "sent Miss Brewis," etc). 
8. "Folly" capitalized here and lowercase in paragraph 2.
Douvaine (talk) 18:39, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poor flow, confusing wording  

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