[MaC] Revelations?

[Jvstin(Mindspring)]

on 1/5/2005 6:51 PM Tara Kunkel said the following:
> At 07:40 PM 1/5/2005, you wrote:
> 
>>>>> "I don't know," admitted Esme.  "I don't ... think so.  She thought 
>>>>> ... if
>>>>> she told Marty ... he might do something.  She didn't even tell him 
>>>>> that he
>>>>> was an officer.  And she wouldn't tell me any more in case Marty 
>>>>> got it out
>>>>> of me."
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "So, this officer would have reason to kill her, to keep his name
>>>> clear," Michael commented. "And reason to want Fitzroy dead, as a Nazi
>>>> and the man who facilitated the murder of his child."
>>>>
>>>> "Convenient."
>>>>
>>>> "So, an officer here?" Michael shakes his head. "Who all does that
>>>> leave?" He ticks off the suspects on his fingers. "Myself, of course.
>>>> Phillip, Warren. I suppose for completeness, you Skeffers."

"Indeed," said Oswald gravely.  "Although I can't aspire to your track 
record, old boy.

"It may not be a British serviceman, remember.  I wonder if any of the 
civilians here have seen service with other forces."

James gave a nod at this, it was known to the residents of the building 
that he had been in the Polish army before the country had been overrun 
by the Nazis and Soviets both.

"And we shouldn't forget - the father of Nola's baby may very well not 
be the one who killed - although he would, perhaps, have a powerful 
motive for attempting to kill Fitzroy."



>>>
>>>
>>> "But why would Miss Diamond even tell you she was sleepin' with an
>>> officer?" Marjorie asked Esme.  "I thought you just said she asked
>>> you for the card for a friend?"
>>
>>
>> "She said her friend was sleeping with an officer," Esme explained.  
>> "So ... when I realised it was her, I thought that the rest was 
>> probably true - the officer, and Marty threatening to destroy the 
>> girl's career."
> 
> 
> "Or perhaps suggesting an officer was her way of trying to further 
> protect the father," Braham mused aloud. "Perhaps it was not an officer 
> at all. And perhaps Fitzroy somehow found out who it was. That could 
> mean just about any man in this room could be guilty."
> 

"Bringing us back to the beginning." James put in, somewhat glumly. 
"Not like one of those mystery novels, is this now?" His tone was not 
mocking, but recognizing of the bind they were all in.