This sounds like a job for Jane Austen, Girl Detective
The Scotsman, in an article about a body found at Box Hill, points out that Jane Austen used Box Hill as a location in one of her novels (the infamous picnic in Emma, of course). While we wonder why such an event would bring Jane Austen’s novels to anyone’s mind, we can’t help thinking that it sounds rather like the beginning of one of the Jane Austen Mysteries. At least we know Lord Harold didn’t do it. . . *sob*
P.S. Perhaps it’s Mr. Dixon’s revenge on Frank Churchill. Just saying.
December 15th, 2004 at 6:22 pm
I like Jane’s world better.
Nice treatment of this. I saw the item and was thinking of the mysteries, but you far surpassed me, as usual. Might have something to do with you being a writer, and me not.
December 16th, 2004 at 12:28 am
I don’t mean to make fun of anyone’s misfortune, as it is a sad story, but really, it was odd to drag Jane Austen into it in the first place.
December 18th, 2004 at 2:09 pm
Okay, this is really weird now
Remember the dead body found at Box Hill? It’s been identified…the man’s name is Bates.
*cue Twilight Zone music*
(And this is still a very sad story. Though we are astounded and a bit freaked out by the Austenish links, we would like to exte…