Susan in NC’s Reviews > Behold, Here's Poison > Status Update

“ In the library Miss Matthews was proving the justice of this mistrust of her. Having discovered that Superintendent Hannasyde was a sympathetic listener she had soon lost her first dread of him, and had told him any number of things which her family would no doubt have preferred her to have kept hidden.”

Great summation by Hemingway, as always! “Lot of talk going on in the servants’ quarters…They don’t like Mrs Matthews. Seems to have been a fair amount of what you might call friction... They say Miss Stella’s clearing out because she wouldn’t live with her aunt. The cook can’t stand Mrs M., but at the same time she says that Harriet M. has been carrying on like a lunatic this last week. Gone potty on economy.”

Great description of Mrs. Matthews by Hannasyde: “But the woman’s such a mass of insincerity it’s very hard to know what to make of her.”