Bedridden detectives
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FROM: "Brett G. Castleberry" <[removed]@garnet.acns.fsu.edu>
REC'D: 11/16/99, 10:56 PM
Brett Castleberry
[removed]@garnet.acns.fsu.edu
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 09:22:47 PST
From: "John McClellan" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
Subject: Modern detective? Historical murder?
Hello Folks,
I'm trying to identify the title and author of a book with an unusual plot.
It has something to do with a bed-ridden Scotland Yard detective that is
trying to solve a series of murders revolving around the British royal
family several hundred years in the past. The book is at least ten years
old. Beyond that, I have no further clues.
FROM: "Dennis K. Lien" <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 11/18/99, 9:23 AM
I vaguely recall Poiret doing this in an early short story (I think) but
do not recall a title.* But I'm pretty sure Holmes does not qualify--I
believe the only Holmes story in which he is bedridden is "The Dying
Detective" and this turns out to be a hoax; he is only playing sick
(fooling even Watson) to lure a criminal to come and confront him.
(*or were you thinking of the final Poiret novel, CURTAIN, in which he
spends most of the book in ill health and, I think--though it's been
very long since I read it--in bed?)
I suppose the classic "bedridden detective" story is the Cornell
Woolrich story adopted into the movie REAR WINDOW. I forget if the
original story had the same title or not.
And while it seems to me that I've read several other examples, I
can't seem to come up with any this morning. Maybe I didn't get
enough sleep....
Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu
FROM: "Marsha Valance " <[removed]@mpl.org>
REC'D: 11/18/99, 2:10 PM
Marsha J. Valance
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Milwaukee, Wi 53233-1436
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"That All May Read"
>>> "Dennis K. Lien" <[removed]@tc.umn.edu> 11/18 9:26 AM >>>
>Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 00:00:44 -0500
>From: "Brett G. Castleberry" <[removed]@garnet.acns.fsu.edu>
>Subject: Subject: Bedridden Detectives (was Modern detective? Historical
murder?)
>
> I know this has been thoroughly answered, but it got me thinking of
>other mysteries solved by bedridden detectives. There is THE WENCH IS DEAD,
>by Colin Dexter: "Bored and impatient with his slow recuperation from a
>perforated ulcer, Inspector Morse comes across an account of Joanna Frank's
>long-forgotten death. As he studies the details, he becomes convinced that
>the men convicted and hanged for her murder were innocent." I believe
>Holmes and Poirot did this too, didn't they?
>
>Brett Castleberry
[removed]@garnet.acns.fsu.edu
>
I vaguely recall Poiret doing this in an early short story (I think) but
do not recall a title.* But I'm pretty sure Holmes does not qualify--I
believe the only Holmes story in which he is bedridden is "The Dying
Detective" and this turns out to be a hoax; he is only playing sick
(fooling even Watson) to lure a criminal to come and confront him.
(*or were you thinking of the final Poiret novel, CURTAIN, in which he
spends most of the book in ill health and, I think--though it's been
very long since I read it--in bed?)
I suppose the classic "bedridden detective" story is the Cornell
Woolrich story adopted into the movie REAR WINDOW. I forget if the
original story had the same title or not.
And while it seems to me that I've read several other examples, I
can't seem to come up with any this morning. Maybe I didn't get
enough sleep....
Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu
FROM: <[removed]@hlc.actx.edu>
REC'D: 11/18/99, 2:30 PM
FROM: <[removed]@hlc.actx.edu>
REC'D: 11/18/99, 2:31 PM
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