mynameisdumbnuts wrote:
The last chapter with the backstory about Inspector Letton's grandfather is unnecessarily confusing. All EBD needed was some criminal to swear revenge against Letton for putting him/a loved one away and boom, there's the motive.
I agree your way is so much easier but EBD wanted some silly family feud which stretched back generations - like the Hatfields and McCoys. But it simply doesn't work because there are too many people to keep track of. And you end up simply not caring.
Alison H wrote:
I don't see that there'd have been any justification for suing the school anyway.
There's plenty of justification. Miss Annersley should never have accepted Copper as a student in the first place as she had no idea what lengths the gang would go to to get hold of her. In those circumstances, you assume the worse and don't endanger other girls.
Then she knew darn well a specific type of girl was in danger and did nothing to provide extra protection or surveillance for them.
Most of all, when Val is kidnapped she doesn't call the police. And, when Len says there was a stranger hanging round the library, she does nothing to scare them off or increase security.
In fact, the minute she was told there was a strange woman asking about Flavia Letton, she should have called Copper's father, let him know the gang had tracked her down and they could no longer keep her.
Miss Annersley is so inert in this book, you wonder if she was asleep.