CK: You would not make a very
good detective!
Dear Miss Marple,
As you know, my reading of Ada is
different. I don't read it as a detective novel.
CK: ...Van who suspects Ada of
several murders, Krolik's most likely the first
I don't think Van suspects Ada of any
crimes. He doesn't even seem to realize that Ada was unfaithful to him during
their separation and that she is making a roundabout confession of her
infidelities (the parable of her three love affairs). Nor do I think that
Ada murdered anyone (not even Philip Rack, one of the "creeping creatures," who
you believe was poisoned by Ada). Her most serious crime (committed with the
help of an accomplice, Kim Beauharnais, a kitchen boy and photographer at Ardis,
who is later blinded by Van) was setting the barn near Ardis Hall on
fire.
Alexey Sklyarenko