2026-09-27 21:07 UTC
@RogerBW@oldbytes.space "Chesterton's tendency to include a troubled young couple to be set to rights" the Cadfael stories are terrible for this; a lot of the mystery is circumvented once we know perfectly well that neither of the young couple will turn out to have done it.
I admit I'm not really convinced that all of four people told to watch a building under unusual circumstances would overlook the "invisible" man.
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@RogerBW@oldbytes.space 2026-09-27 21:26
@denisbloodnok@mendeddrum.org Goodness yes. I don't begrudge Peters the success of Cadfael, but I do like her earlier contemporary mysteries much better. (And I feel that the universal monastic practice of communal naked bathing would have made some of those girls disguised as novices rather easier to spot.) I agree it's not foolproof, but I think it was more plausible then than now when the reader is not used to ignoring servants going about their work.