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An­la­ge 1: The Ex­po­si­ti­on


Set­ting (place and time)

  • con­tem­pora­ry Lon­don: Ian’s house in Chel­sea
  • Bromp­ton ce­me­try, Lon­don

Si­tua­ti­on

  • Po­li­ce re­port the death of Ian Rider in a car ac­ci­dent to his ne­phew Alex.
  • Alex doesn’t be­lie­ve in the al­le­ged car ac­ci­dent: “’The po­li­ce said he wasn’t wea­ring his seat belt.’ […] ‘Doesn’t that seem stran­ge to you? […] He al­ways wore his seat belt’.” (p. 5)
  • Ian’s fu­n­e­ral at Bromp­ton ce­me­te­ry – the mys­te­ry de­epens

    → There is ob­vious evi­dence that Ian didn’t work as a ban­ker: “Ian Rider had gone and so had ever­y­thing else […] Wha­te­ver the truth was about his uncle’s past, so­meo­ne had just wiped it out.” (p. 12)


Cha­rac­ters

Characters


At­mo­s­phe­re

mys­te­rious/sus­pi­cious

  → “When the door­bell rings at three in the morning, it’s never good news.” (p. 1, first sen­tence of the novel)
  → “Doesn’t that seem stran­ge to you? You know how ca­re­ful he was…” (p. 5, Alex to Jack about Ian’s al­le­ged car ac­ci­dent)
  → “…that made his [Alex] skin crawl.” (p. 8, Alex’s first mee­ting with Mr. Blunt)
  → “… a good man, a pa­trio­tic man…” (p. 9, gra­vesi­de ad­dress)
  → “Why should bank ma­na­gers carry guns?” (p. 11, Mr. Blunt’s com­pa­ny at the fu­n­e­ral)


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