TSH: Ted's identity

John Watkins · 21 Apr 2010, 19:05 · from 2010-April.txt.gz

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From: john.watkins04 at gmail.com (John Watkins)
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:05:11 -0400
Subject: (urth) TSH: Ted's identity
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People (especially married people) also monogram towels.  And towels are
frequently wet.  Especially if they've just been used to dry someone off,
after maybe crawling in from the river or after showering off after crawling
out of a grave.

Just thought I'd throw my wild speculation out there.

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 3:02 PM, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Well, hell! My wife hasn't read the book, knows nothing about it. But I
> just
> > described the scene to her that Doris described in her letter, and said
> that
> > a monogrammed handkerchief, the obvious choice, probably wasn't the
> answer.
> > She came up with stationery. Duh! In a book made up of letters! Who wudda
> > thunk it!
>
> Well, at least stationary has a corner. A shirt doesn't work. But an
> envelope has a corner and one might put their initials in the return
> address.It would have to be a letter *he* had written. But any
> explanation needs a good reason why she wouldn't say what it was. I
> would think it would be something too disgusting to write or something
> very incriminating to Ted or Doris. It's needs to be a key to the plot
> or else why make such a big deal of it? There are really not that many
> things that are commonly monogrammed, I think, and I'm really
> befuddled.
>
> J.
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