Status Updates From The Inklings Detective Agency

To get the witness to talk, Tolkien says he’s writing a mystery and thought this would make good material for it. If everyone thinks it’s a suicide, why would it make good material for a mystery? I feel like the witness would have wondered that. She doesn’t know they’re investigating it as a murder.

Lewis and Williams come across as haughty and prudish, thinking themselves above Crowley in every way. So much so that it’s off-putting and makes them seem overly confident in their own intelligence. I wish that had been dialed back because it makes our protagonists a lot less likable.

Aleister Crowley!