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[flemmings]

I think Gladys Mitchell may have pulled a Raymond Chandler, or was it Dashiell Hammett? The one who forgot to say who had killed the first of his victims. Anyway, with a twisty plot and an opportunistic liar of a major character, I have no idea who killed the first corpse and why.

There's also an oddity in Mrs. Bradley's first family by marriage, the Lestranges. She has a sister-in-law, Lady Selina, evidently the sister of Husband #1, Charles Lestrange, because Selina never could see what 'her brother Charles'  saw in Adela Beatrice. But Selina is married with a daughter, and is still Selina Lestrange. If she's Charles' sister, why is she a Lady? If she's married, why is she a Lestrange? If she's only Charles' sister-in-law (using brother here in an Austen sense) how can she be Mrs. Bradley's sister-in-law. I am confuse.

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[poliphilo]

I think this happens in the film version of The Big Sleep. Someone shoots a chauffeur- and neither Chandler nor the director nor anybody else could explain whodunnit and for what reason.

[flemmings]

Right. Minor character, and minor characters don't count