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The Mistletoe Murder - Book Group Discussion Thread

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McGoohan
McGoohan
Dec 2017
8:49am, 9 Dec 2017
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I'm half way through Story 1 but my whelmometer needs de-icing
McGoohan
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Story 1 completed and I've scraped the ice off the whelmometer and it's definitely higher than 'whelm'
GregP
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10:41am, 9 Dec 2017
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Good to hear. I've tapped mine and it is still obstinately stuck on 'whelmed'.
GregP
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6:32am, 10 Dec 2017
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Half way into story three. My whelmometer has risen considerably.
McGoohan
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7:59am, 11 Dec 2017
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Story 2 completed.

Story 3 completed.

Whemometer still above average.
GregP
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8:38am, 11 Dec 2017
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It is possibly the most 7/10 book I've read all year.
McGoohan
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It's 7/10-ness personified. Well, bookified.
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I have a question about the second story. I don't read much detective fiction so I'm not used to the grammar of such things, but what is the significance of the key at the end? Gabriel has returned the 'wrong' key. So Morrisey orders the girl to relabel it. Is this there just so PD James can identify the husband at the end? We already know Gabriel did it, but are we being told he was in collusion with the husband?

Er... SPOILER ALERT for those who haven't read it...
GregP
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9:29am, 11 Dec 2017
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I thought it was just to set up the reveal rather than being a plot point in and of itself.
McGoohan
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It was that line about him 'always having a funny relationship with that flat' though of course that could just mean 'because his cheating wife was murdered there'

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