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Some characters from The Thurber Murder
Crosby, an intelligent dog
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His master, Chester Braithwaite,
investigating the murder of...
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...Chester's detestable cousin,
Evangeline Braithwaite Smelt.
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The year is 1929, the stock market is going insane, and everyone except our hero Chester Braithwaite
is striking it rich. When the noodly word MURDER appears in his bowl of alphabet soup, Chester eagerly begins
an investigation into the death of his cousin Evangeline Smelt. Accompanied by his faithful dog Crosby,
he interrogates one witness after another, but somehow all his interviews go awry.
(To read two chapters of this great masterpiece, click on "The Thurber Murder" at the bottom of this page, or click
here.)
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Chester's suspects include:
Poor speck-haunted Mrs. Dalhausie
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Excitable grammarian Felicity Newelpost
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Smoldering temptress Loretta Crankcase
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Gruesome twins Alice and Dorothea Smelt
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The Reverend Virgil Dirge
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And the Prince of Wales in a cameo role
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