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“I was”

Well that I did not see coming. I did wonder why the Crawfords wanted Baz given how Dominick and Alfie said he was such a terror and a bully. But I did not once suspect that it was Dominick they actually picked.

Ugh. I was really hoping this wouldn’t have a third act breakup. And until these last two pages, I really believed there wouldn’t be one.

Well, given how much of the book is left and how many times it’s already been mentioned, there’s still Baz to watch out for.

Damn it. I didn’t feel one way or the other about Doctor Barlowe but nowI do! Something is fishy. I hope this isn’t all a ploy to hide the evidence of poisoning and give himself time to warn Reginald while Dominick stays silently waiting.

There it is. At least I know Alfie won’t die. And at least Dominick didn’t drink any so they didn’t have to suffer until Mrs Hirkins found them a few hours later in the morning.

You dumdums! You just got proof that Reginald is behind the assassination attempts, and you know he’s greedy, too greedy to give a gift for sure. So why drink this almost surely poisoned bottle of port????????

So Reginald hired Baz to kill Alfie…

There’s a big difference in the page numbers between the editions listed on GR. The copy from my library has an isbn and pub year that matches this edition’s but a cover like the kindle 2023 one. And the inaccurate, font size dependant page count is 267. I wonder if there’s a big difference in the content or if the page numbers on GR aren’t correct.