British pluck. Tommy thinks Tuppence is dead, but he soldiers on bravely. She, earlier, thought he was dead, but . . . The missing documents are still missing. Julius (the American) is looking more and more like Mr. Brown. A photo Antoinette, the French maid at the place where Tommy was nearly killed, shows up in Julius's drawer. Plodding Tommy just might save the day. Great fun, but the characters aren't quite real. We're supposed to believe Tommy and Tuppence, without admitting it, are truly and deeply in love. Yet when one thinks the other dead, it's a bit like they've lost a favorite pen. The plotting of the story, though, is quite amazing--I'm assuming AC can pull it off. My guess is that Julius is, in fact, Mr. Brown.
PUPPY Dysfunctional family has puppy that they need to get rid of. Mom places ad; family is coming over. Description of family. Mom: husband changed from long-haired attractive to stooped old man. Husband: talks constantly of living on a farm and doing what needs to be done, though he never lived on a farm. Conversations together: Sell and move to Arizona, get hooked on phonics for kids, buying a car wash. . . wonderful randomness. Straight-laced suburbanite comes to look at puppy. Seems like she will buy it, even though she is repelled by house. (Dog turds on carpet, filthy.) She is proud of how accepting she is until she looks out window and sees white trash's son tied by harness to a tree. Reader knows he is a menace to himself, darting across I-90, for example. Suburban mother beats hasty retreat, leaving dog to be (probably) drowned by dad who does what has to be done. Suburbanite remembers her own pathetic ch...
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