Talk:A Presumption of Death

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Gaudy Night sonnet: Not entirely "composed by Lord Peter"
The article states (twice) that the sonnet in question was "composed by Lord Peter Wimsey on a punt." That is clearly wrong. In chapter 11 of "Gaudy Night," Harriet Vane composes the sonnet's octet and, unable to find a finishing turn for it, leaves the sonnet mixed up in her papers, which are then handed to Lord Peter for perusal on their punting excursion; he is to return them next day (chapter 15). In chapter 18, Harriet Vane discovers that Lord Peter has added his sextet to her octet: "Her beautiful, big, peaceful humming-top turned to a whip-top, and sleeping, as it were, upon compulsion." --Zerolevel (talk) 13:14, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Textual difficulties in The Late Scholar
The Late Scholar p7	Either MA or, at a pinch, MA(Oxon), but never MA Oxon. Also why Mr Troutbeck rather than Dr Troutbeck, as he has a DPhil degree?

p23	The Plain, not The Plains

p36	One can have splashes (or drops) of green, blue or red light. One cannot have splashes of black light.

p43	There are two entrances to All Souls: one is directly opposite the Radcliffe Camera and one is on the High. So it is not possible, going south, to pass the gate of All Souls and then pass the Radcliffe Camera.

passim	MS is a literary abbreviation for “manuscript” in text. To use it in speech is an affectation, and it is implausible that many characters throughout the book would have all used it on every occasion.

p65	The expression “snake in the woodpile” is not common even today, and was not in use in England in the 1950s.

p70	In the Old English quotation, it is inconsistent to render the thorn þ, which is relatively available in fonts, as “th”, but to render wynn as Y.

pp113 & 166	Bunter makes a point of addressing the Duke as “Your Grace”, so why would he refer to Viscount St George as “Master Bredon”? And even forgetting the noble title, a 17-year-old is far too old to be called “Master So-and-so”.

p194	Sturm und Drang: initial capitals (Note that italics have been used, so it is a foreign phrase, not a phrase borrowed into English.)

p204	The Salters’ Grammar School, if it existed, would have been endowed by the Company of Salters (one of the great livery companies, which in real life does support educational charities), so the apostrophe goes after the final S.

p210	“smoosh” is not in my big Chambers dictionary: what is it supposed to mean?

p224	Typo “Gollanz” for “Gollancz”

pp231 & 328	Scholars are “postmasters” at Merton and “demies” at Magdalen, but it is stretching credulity that they are “scholarship boys” at St Severin’s. See also p.351.

p242, line 8	Which of the three duchesses present is “the Duchess”?

pp277f	The university does not and did not require the payment of a fee each year in order to graduate as MA.

p297, line 2	“the outer door of his set”

p330	Three actors were allowed in a Greek tragedy, not just one.

pp334f	“emend” has twice been used inappropriately instead of “amend”.

p346	Bowls is played in a series of “ends”, not “rounds”.

p355	LITTERATORUM means “of the lettered”; “of letters” is LITTERARUM (or LITTERARVM if you want to be pedantic). There is an inconsistency in the dates: David Outlander’s death is stated to be “five years ago in 1948”, while Lord St George is stated to be 17 years old that summer, which would make it 1954 as he was born in late 1936.

Why is there no mention at all of the third son Roger, who appeared in The Attenbury Emeralds? Ehrenkater (talk) 18:58, 29 June 2018 (UTC)