tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7493712084606110971.post524546695208768040..comments2024-03-28T04:48:19.626-07:00Comments on Strange Company: The Campden WonderUndinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16214242522330278662noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7493712084606110971.post-45462032513227963442018-01-28T00:29:46.955-08:002018-01-28T00:29:46.955-08:00As an occasional author of detective stories, let ...As an occasional author of detective stories, let me try my hand.<br /><br />William Harrison, flush with money from the rent collection, elderly and sick and tired of his humdrum life, has a brainwave. He decides to decamp with the rent money and disappear, faking his own death. Two years later, the money having run out and life on the Great Outside not measuring up to fantasy, he returns. In order to cover his own tracks he invents the abduction story, using as inspiration the sword attach story of his servant a few days earlier.<br /><br />John Perry, in the meantime, is a man whose mental faculties are not of the highest. He has, especially, difficulty in separating fact from imagination, and readily convinces himself of the truth of things that he has only imagined (the sword attack, for example). Under imprisonment, he eventually constructs a fantasy tale of what happened to his employer, and convinces himself of its veracity. <br /><br />The authorities are looking for a scapegoat in the meantime; a working class person, eminently disposable, is at hand, and the whole affair can be disposed of. Why should they look further?Bill the Butcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08436195659154078021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7493712084606110971.post-39506827305369509422014-01-31T16:24:54.683-08:002014-01-31T16:24:54.683-08:00Sorry! There was just the one brother, Richard. ...Sorry! There was just the one brother, Richard. God knows what sort of brain blip accounted for "Robert." Thanks for pointing that out; I should probably appoint you as my copy-editor.Undinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16214242522330278662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7493712084606110971.post-67723958971934643562014-01-31T14:30:38.304-08:002014-01-31T14:30:38.304-08:00It's a good story, certainly, but I'm a bi...It's a good story, certainly, but I'm a bit confused about Robert and Richard, who seem both to be the same brother of John.Dan Collinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18003419431016626023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7493712084606110971.post-48418542628831535152013-10-01T08:51:46.932-07:002013-10-01T08:51:46.932-07:00It has been dramatized a number of times over the ...It has been dramatized a number of times over the centuries, but I have no idea what their "solutions" to the mystery might have been.Undinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16214242522330278662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7493712084606110971.post-1967098301034996142013-10-01T08:38:01.744-07:002013-10-01T08:38:01.744-07:00Interesting story! Could be made into a novel.Interesting story! Could be made into a novel.Iva P.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08009940750785428449noreply@blogger.com