PEACE: One Devil

Dave Tallman · 19 Apr 2008, 05:08 · from 2008-April.txt.gz

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From: davetallman at msn.com (Dave Tallman)
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:08:21 -0600
Subject: (urth)  PEACE: One Devil
References: BLU119-W34B5AE17F877F1CB6DC78A4E40 at phx.gbl
Message-ID: <48097E45.1010904 at gmail.com>

I hope this works as a reply. I had to use a different email account but it's still me.

> Dave, I always thought Able Green WAS Mrs. Green?s son at the party.
> So with your train of thought, it would make the murdered boy in the coldroom
> Able Green himself.

I thought about that idea but decided against it. There is this exchange:

I say, "Please, I've got to see the doctor. I'm dying."

Nurse: All these people are ahead of you.

Ted Singer and Sherry Gold are both obviously much younger than I...

If Abel Green were the coldhouse victim he died at age 18 and cannot appear
older than that. Even though the time-frame of the doctor's visit is
extremely strange, Weer knows he appears to the nurse to be in his
40's or 50's, so he would have included Green in his mental joke as another
person "obviously much younger," like 16-year-old Sherry.

> PS ? Yes, the color names make me think of Clue.  And for good reason.  In Clue,
> the names are supposed to be pseudonyms to keep the players anonymous.  I think
> Weer also uses pseudonyms.

I think that idea was only introduced in the Clue movie, but you have a good idea
about pseudonyms. For example, the name "Julius Smart" seems too descriptive of the man
to be real.

> PPS ? Am I the only goof who can?t figure out what Weer?s Tang-like drink is named?

You have the answer: Tang. Wolfe admitted that in an interview somewhere. Aunt Julia
invented the name; the joke is that it's a famous Chinese dynasty.

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