The characters in the detective story

Hi guys,

today we first talked about your holidays and my trip to California too.

You can see some pictures here:

Then we continued the lesson with the analysis of the text. You had to recap what we had said before the holidays about the situation and analyse the places and characters more.

Here are some notes about the characters:

- Liddy Hamilton (the detective)

- Inez Olson (the housekeeper / servant / maid) - a suspect

- James (Jim) Shepard (a political enemy) - a suspect

- Samuel Mason (an ally) - a suspect

- Robert (Bob) Cole Kelner (the dead governor) - the victim

- Mac Coy ....?

We also mentionned that the scene takes place in 3 different houses: the victim's mansion and the politicians' homes.

Vocab:

a clue

a suspect

an alibi

the murder weapon

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Homework:

- être capable d'expliquer en 2 minutes la situation globale dans le texte (qui, où, quand, quelle relation entre les personnages, quelles sources de suspicion possibles).