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green_trilobite's been watching a lot of tv mystery series of late. A couple of thoughts that have occurred to me:
1. In all the golden-age mysteries I've ever read, when the Stupid Police (tm) find a body with a wristwatch or nearby clock smashed in the struggle, they always use it to estimate the time of death - and it always turns out the murderer moved the hands and then smashed the timepiece on purpose to throw them off. In recent police procedurals, OTOH, the smashed clocks keeps turning out to be exactly what they seem.
2. In the Six Napoleons (cut for spoiler) , wouldn't being hid in a piece of plaster for a year be very damaging to a pearl? They're very delicate gems, unlike diamonds or the other precious stones, and I can vouch that handling plaster dries out one's hands - I'd imagine it would strip the surface off a pearl.
1. In all the golden-age mysteries I've ever read, when the Stupid Police (tm) find a body with a wristwatch or nearby clock smashed in the struggle, they always use it to estimate the time of death - and it always turns out the murderer moved the hands and then smashed the timepiece on purpose to throw them off. In recent police procedurals, OTOH, the smashed clocks keeps turning out to be exactly what they seem.
2. In the Six Napoleons (cut for spoiler) , wouldn't being hid in a piece of plaster for a year be very damaging to a pearl? They're very delicate gems, unlike diamonds or the other precious stones, and I can vouch that handling plaster dries out one's hands - I'd imagine it would strip the surface off a pearl.
