After The End, Part 2

[sonetka]

For all of you who have lain awake at night wondering "I wonder what happened to Mr. Pond and Miss Booth after the end of Strong Poison?" I say to you, wonder no more! I have a few more planned but these were the first two to emerge in presentable fashion. All questions, comments, criticisms and Britpicks are very welcome.

Comments

[nineveh_uk]

I love both of these. I fear that being the clerk of a bent solicitor cannot be good for Mr Pond's future career, but perhaps his newfound sleuthing skills might get him something in financial investigations with an insurance firm or similar. And Miss Booth's other seance!

It wasn't quite clear to me who Tom, George, and Beatrice exactly were in terms of relations. George is the nephew, are Tom and Beatrice his parents?

[sonetka]

I feel bad for Mr. Pond -- he's described as "elderly" several times, so finding future employment would be hard enough without that! With any luck he'll have some money saved by now, though. He seems like a saver -- and perhaps he will turn out to be a pioneer of forensic accounting after all this :).

Tom is Miss Booth's brother -- he's mentioned very briefly as appearing in the family portrait Miss Climpson sees, along with a sister named Gertrude. So yes, George is Miss Booth's nephew and Tom and Beatrice's son -- there was no name given for Tom's wife, so I just grabbed one that seemed likely.

[castiron]

Lovely, and I completely believe that Mrs. Hodges guessed far more about what Miss Murchison was up to than she let on. And I'm now convinced that Miss Booth managed to get a hold of the real Philip Boyes's ghost, because that's just what he'd say.

[sonetka]

Miss Murchison did a great job considering she had to improvise under extreme pressure, but Mrs. Hodges must have wondered -- if not the first, the second time. And there is no WAY the cleaning staff wouldn't know about their building's little oddities, like secret panels. As for Miss Booth -- since Miss Climpson told Lord Peter she would like to stay in Windle for another few weeks, so as not to arouse suspicion, and events moved so fast afterwards, I'm positive that she was the medium Miss Booth asked to contact Philip Boyes. And since Miss Climpson was a juror for Harriet's trial, she would have had a pretty detailed impression of his character even if she never read a word he wrote.

[mobile_alh]

Alovely, lovely vignettes!

[sonetka]

Thank you!