Peace (spoilers)
The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 10 Aug 2000
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Kevin J. Maroney — 10 Aug 2000, 14:53

> At 06:04 PM 8/10/00 GMT, Christopher Culver wrote:
> Pat. Nut. wrote:
> <Dire interpretations of Wolfe events are tempting, but recall how often
> they have been wrong. Weer in *Peace* was supposed to be a multiple
> murderer, according to some, until Wolfe said that was nonsense.>
> 
> Wolfe may have said that about the *multiple* murderer hypothesis, but in 
> one interview he said the reader would have to figure out for himself if 
> Weer killed the librarian, and he didn't say that suspicion of that would be 
> nonsense.

Also, Weir could have killed multiple people without being a "multiple
murderer". The young boy and the man who was locked in the freezer could
both easily have been accidents, and I don't know if he did kill the
librarian; even if he did, that might conceivably not have been murder if
she'd had a weapon--I don't remember the details well, and I'm sure many of
them are well-hidden. 

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