<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">And, while they were hardly bosom buddies—Henry James and Christie’s father knew each other from the same wealthy NYC circles and James visited Christie’s childhood home—but you no doubt know this! It is another Woolf tangential intersection. <br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 20, 2020, at 10:35 AM, Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf <<a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu" class="">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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Briscoe and Mr. Bankes, looking uneasily up into the sky, observed that the
flock of starlings which Jasper had routed with his gun had settled on the tops
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<div class="">In Agatha Christie’s “The Tragedy of Marsdon Manor” (which appeared in
“Poirot Investigates”, 1924; story originally published in “The Sketch” in
1923), a rook rifle is relevant:</div>
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<div class="">Rook rifle:</div>
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<div class="">No longer relevant nowadays, of course:</div>
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<div class="">Oh dear:</div>
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