Rutabaga Posted January 28 Report Share Posted January 28 I'm no expert in this area, but Ben's advice to hold off on jumping into Johnny's past abuse seemed very sound to me. R Quote Link to comment
Rutabaga Posted January 30 Report Share Posted January 30 I bet we can guess who is defending Mayers. Is this an opportunity for Johnny’s revenge? R Quote Link to comment
mycroft Posted February 1 Report Share Posted February 1 Hope she doesn't play dirty... Then again, Trev's connection with Miss Jenkins means that our friends aren't completely defenseless on that front. Quote Link to comment
Rutabaga Posted February 14 Report Share Posted February 14 I am dying to find out what Johnny has cooked up with Miss Jenkins. R Quote Link to comment
Rutabaga Posted February 27 Report Share Posted February 27 Somehow I'm expecting that Johnny's mysterious trip into town a few chapters ago is going to lead to some kind of interesting development in this trial. R Quote Link to comment
Rutabaga Posted March 3 Report Share Posted March 3 It seems like a guilty verdict is a foregone conclusion . . . provided Beryl (or her client) did not tamper with the jury. Wonder what hold Mayer has on Beryl? R Quote Link to comment
Rutabaga Posted March 8 Report Share Posted March 8 Well that was exciting. Wonder if we'll find out what kind of nefarious activities Beryl and Mayers were mixed up with? Johnny's life is in danger, and I hope he has stashed his physical evidence (after making backups of everything) in an extremely secure location. Same thing with the surveillance videos retrieved from Beryl's residence. R Quote Link to comment
Rutabaga Posted March 13 Report Share Posted March 13 I wondered if we were going to hear about the Hendersons again. R Quote Link to comment
Merkin Posted March 13 Report Share Posted March 13 What an exquisitely complex plot! I am having to make lists of characters. Keep it coming, Nigel. Quote Link to comment
Rutabaga Posted March 17 Report Share Posted March 17 Has the number of characters in this story broken into the triple digits yet? Seems like it must have by now. R Quote Link to comment
Nigel Gordon Posted March 19 Report Share Posted March 19 On 3/17/2021 at 7:21 PM, Rutabaga said: Has the number of characters in this story broken into the triple digits yet? Seems like it must have by now. R Yes, just. The total number of characters in book one is 105. Quote Link to comment
Rutabaga Posted April 9 Report Share Posted April 9 When might we see the next segment of this? Should we bang our silverware on the table? Inquiring minds want to know! R Quote Link to comment
Nigel Gordon Posted April 10 Report Share Posted April 10 12 hours ago, Rutabaga said: When might we see the next segment of this? Should we bang our silverware on the table? Inquiring minds want to know! R I have told my editor that I will be letting him have copy to start work on during the first week of August, so given how long I expect the editing to take, based on the first book, I think you are looking at Christmas to see book two coming out. At the moment I am about half-way through writing chapter 37. That should mean I am about half-way through the story. Unfortunately, I only seem to be about a third of the way. So it is either going to be a lot longer than expected or I am going to have to speed things up. Quote Link to comment
Rutabaga Posted April 10 Report Share Posted April 10 My hat is off to you for undertaking this effort. R Quote Link to comment
Merkin Posted April 12 Report Share Posted April 12 Great news, Nigel. Thank you for the update. Quote Link to comment
Rutabaga Posted May 21 Report Share Posted May 21 Spoiler So we await the next chapters to find out such things as . . . What happened to Trevor after he attempted to hang himself? What is the full extent and nature of Die Vereinigung? What was Beryl doing with her frequent trips to Brazil or Argentina? Why did she have a file folder with the name of the accused ex-Nazi in her floor safe? How on earth did she end up with all those gold bars? Who ordered the detective agency to follow Mike and Johnny around? Is it Stan and Flora or Jack and Flora? Phil's dad's name seems to keep changing. Is it Mike Carlton or Mike Clayton? Leni or Liam? Arthur or Austin? What else will Miss Jenkins learn from the server that Johnny purloined from his mother's residence? What is the tie-in between the Argentinians and the Hendersons? Just how corrupt is the local police force and the administration of the local college Anne and Johnny have been attending? Who was Master James and what was his connection with Mayers and Beryl Smith? Who were the two men arrested, presumably as the suspects in Beryl's murder? Will Peter Braylow be charged with anything relating to his sexual activities with boys? Will Phil succeed in having his juvenile conviction quashed? Will there be consequences for the police officer who suppressed evidence? What was the aftermath of Bernard's surgery? Inquiring minds want to know. R Quote Link to comment
Nigel Gordon Posted May 23 Report Share Posted May 23 Rutabaga, about half of those are answered in book 2, the rest you will have to wait for book 3. Quote Link to comment
