Urque-Hartly Innocent by Thompson, Liv https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4 Suspects, Sketchiness, and Strong Poison en-us 2022-02-23 19:09:33 UTC 2022-03-01 23:24:19 UTC hello@padlet.com lithompson4 https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2063314284 2022-02-23 20:02:39 UTC https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2063314284 What really happened to Philip Boyes? lithompson4 https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2063317325 2022-02-23 20:04:50 UTC https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2063317325 1925 - Dr. Weare first diagnoses Boyes with acute gastritis https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2063326769 2022-02-23 20:11:58 UTC https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2063326769 1927 - Philip Boyes and Harriet Vane, the future lovers, meet lithompson4 https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2063332463 2022-02-23 20:15:58 UTC https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2063332463 February 1929 - Trouble in paradise. Harriet and Philip get in an argument and decide to separate. lithompson4 https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2063334511 2022-02-23 20:17:34 UTC https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2063334511 March 1929 - Harriett and Boyes meet again. lithompson4 https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2063343659 2022-02-23 20:24:06 UTC https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2063343659 March 31, 1929 - Boyes suffers a gastric trouble attack. lithompson4 https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2063344971 2022-02-23 20:25:11 UTC https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2063344971 April 10, 1929 - Harriett buys arsenic, later claiming it to be for research purposes for her upcoming book. lithompson4 https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2063347429 2022-02-23 20:26:53 UTC https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2063347429 Approx. April 14, 1929 - Harriett and Philip meet again. lithompson4 https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2063349157 2022-02-23 20:28:04 UTC https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2063349157 April 15, 1929 - Boyes suffers yet another gastric attack. lithompson4 https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2063351823 2022-02-23 20:29:42 UTC https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2063351823 May 5, 1929 - Harriett purchases more arsenic. lithompson4 https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2063352589 2022-02-23 20:30:18 UTC https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2063352589 May 12 ,1929 - Philip experiences another gastric trouble attack. lithompson4 https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2063354102 2022-02-23 20:31:28 UTC https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2063354102 Approx. May 20, 1929 - Another meeting with his former lover, Harriett Vane. lithompson4 https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2063355562 2022-02-23 20:32:28 UTC https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2063355562 End of May, 1929 - Philip takes a trip to Wales with Vaughan and feels healthy for the duration of the trip. lithompson4 https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2063367641 2022-02-23 20:42:09 UTC https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2063367641 THE NIGHT IN QUESTION: JUNE 20TH, 1929 lithompson4 https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2065515962 2022-02-25 00:28:27 UTC https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2065515962 1. Philip Boyes attends dinner at cousin Norman Urquhart's residence with house staff present. lithompson4 https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2065526343 2022-02-25 00:38:42 UTC https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2065526343 3. Boyes stops briefly at a bar where he consumes mysterious white powder and beverage to ease the apparent pain he was already in. lithompson4 https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2065576460 2022-02-25 01:23:15 UTC https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2065576460 2. Boyes taxis to Harriet Vane's house after dinner, where he has a cup of coffee. lithompson4 https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2065584332 2022-02-25 01:26:33 UTC https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2065584332 Following the trial, Harriet Vane appears to be the primary suspect. Not only did she have a motive, but was also in possession of arsenic and with Boyes the night he fell ill. lithompson4 https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2070459583 2022-02-28 23:47:15 UTC https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2070459583 Norman Urquhart https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2072381572 Partially shows his hand while Wimsey interviews him. Sayers uses language intentionally, emphasizing Urquhart's hesitation at the corner of every question, slowly siphoning information (the validity of which stays unclear to the reader).]]> 2022-03-01 22:06:04 UTC https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2072381572 But to Vanes' luck, Detective Peter Wimsey is determined to prove her an innocent woman in her pending retrial. lithompson4 https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2072385308 2022-03-01 22:09:39 UTC https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2072385308 In Wimsey's quest for clues, other suspects begin to emerge... lithompson4 https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2072394272 2022-03-01 22:19:47 UTC https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2072394272 The Rosanna Wrayburn https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2072398158 Wimsey learns from Urquhart's cook, Emma Weslock, that he spends considerable time with his great aunt, Rosanna Wrayburn. 
"I couldn't rightly say sir. I understand it depends on how the sick lady gets on.... if she were to pass away, he would spend some time settling her estate." -pg136
Wimsey also learns from Urquhart himself, that Wrayburn sits on a large fortune, which he claims will all go to him.]]> 2022-03-01 22:23:39 UTC https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2072398158 The Woodstock Typewriter https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2072416203 Wimsey first noticed the fine imperfections of Urquhart's office typewriter when his embedded employee, Ms. Murchison writes him a report on her ongoings with it.
“he read the letter again, mechanically noting that it was typed on a woodstock machine, with a chipped lowercase p and capital A out of alignment.”
Upon reading the the copy of Wrayburn's will (claimed by Urquhart to have been written 8 years prior), Wimsey noticed the very same typos. 
“He fetched a sheet of transcript (the will) from a side-table and handed it to Wimsey, who noticed mechanically, that it had chipped lowercase p’s and the capital A’s were out of alignment.”
Ms. Muchison even confirms that Urquhart had stayed in the office late, tapping away at the Woodstock, and that she can confirm the machine was purchased not three years prior.
“No, except that evening you called at Mr. Urquhart’s office, he stayed on a long time after we had gone, typing
 something.”
“Yes, it (the woodstock typewriter) was purchased three years ago”]]> 2022-03-01 22:42:26 UTC https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2072416203 Mrs. Bulfinch Account https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2072421928 Mrs. Bulfinch witnesses Boyes ingest a large 'dollop' of white powder, which we assume is medical grade arsenic (the kind you can't get from a typical chemist's store), on the 20th of June, the very night he last saw Harriet Vane. Wimsey points out the the packet Boyes left behind would've had a label, to which Mrs. Bulfinch responds: 
“I looked for the label, and it had been torn off.” 
Implying that someone was trying to hide the origins of the substance.

]]> 2022-03-01 22:49:01 UTC https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2072421928 How does Sayers use language to subtly imply guilt? lithompson4 https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2072424660 “I never saw her till she was an old woman, but, before she had the stroke which destroyed her brain and body, she still kept the remains of remarkable beauty. She was a shrewd old woman in her way, and grasping. She had those tight little hands, plump and narrow, that give nothing away – except for cash down. You know the sort.” -Urquhart to Wimsey, regarding Wrayburn (ch. 11)]]> 2022-03-01 22:52:45 UTC https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2072424660 Boyes' toxic locks https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2072425837 Just the small piece of evidence that Mr. Boyes died with three months worth of arsenic in his hair.

]]> 2022-03-01 22:54:24 UTC https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2072425837 Dr. Weare https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2072433243 A close associate of both Mr. Boyes and Mr. Urquhart, Dr. Weare would've had the means to help snuff the victim out. We know the arsenic that killed Boyes was only obtainable by a doctor, so we are left with no motive. Our theory, is that since we know Urquhart is lying about when the will was written, and therefore most likely to whom the money was to be left, that the money was originally left to Boyes. As Urquhart was managing his cousin's affairs, and Boyes had no next of kin, his inheritance would transfer to Urquhart. Thus, Mr. Urquhart could pay Dr. Weare handsomely for his help.]]> 2022-03-01 23:04:53 UTC https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2072433243 The Will (Urquhart's version) lithompson4 https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2072446600 “...[E]nsure that no part of my property shall come into the hands of my great-nephew Philip Boyes or his descendents.”

“...I enjoin upon the said Norman Urquhart as my dying wish that he neither give lend nor convey to the said Philip Boyes any part of the income derived from the said property...” (ch. 11)]]> 2022-03-01 23:23:53 UTC https://padlet.com/lithompson4/druhrxp2y51v8h4/wish/2072446600