motivatie

Ik heb dit boek gelezen, omdat ik van mijn zus hoorde (net als bij al mijn andere boeken die ik heb gelezen) dat het een mooi boek was. Ik had er verder niet veel van gehoord, maar ik hoorde wel van een vriendin dat die ook bezig was om dit boek te lezen voor een leesverslag en zij vertelde dat ze het een erg spannend boek vond. En ik hou wel van spannende boeken, dus ik besloot het boek ook te lezen. Ik was al helemaal zeker van mijn beslissing toen ik hoorde dat mijn zus het boek nog op haar kamer had liggen, zodat ik er niet voor naar de bibliotheek hoefde.
samenvatting

Part One - Dorothy
Without realizing it, Dorothy Kingship (Dorrie) has ruined her boyfriend's evel plans by getting pregnant. The boy whose name is not yet mentiones, is bent on securing the money of Dorothy's father, Mr Leo Kingship, managing director of Kingship Copper Inc. Dorothy loves him and does not see through his designs. She wants to get married as soon as possible but her boyfriend knows that he might just as well forget about getting any money if they did so. He persuades her to take pills to bring about an abortion. She takes them but they do not work. He the decides to get rid of her and makes preparations to kill her with arsenic, but in such a way that people will believe it was suicide. They are both studying at Stoddard University and during classes he tricks her into writing a 'suicide note'. He gives her the arsenic caplules, telling her that they are abortion pills and better that the first ones. He says that she will be all right, apart from some slight discomfort. Later that night he persuades her to take the pills and to tell nobody about them. De posts the 'suicide note' to Dorothy's sister, Ellen. The next day, just when he is wondering about the enpuiry that will follow her death, Dorothy just walks into the class room. This gives him the shock of his life. She tells him that the pills did not work, but knows better. She did not take them, and he thinks she is a "dirty liar". He has got a problem on his hands now: Ellen will receive the note later that day and she will raise the alarm, so he calculates that he has some five hours left to dispose of Dorothy. He tells her that he thinks they should get married that afternoon. They go to the municipal building which houses the Marriege License Bureau. When they get there they are a bit early, just as he had lannes. He suggests that they admire the view from the roof of the Municipal building. Once they are there, he pushes her down a ventilation shaft. The police think is was suicide.

Part two - Ellen
Leo Kingship receives a letter from Annabelle Koch, the student who was the last known person to speak to Dorothy. She expresses her surprise at the fast that on the day of her dearh Dorothy came to her to borrow a belt, although she herself owned one exactly the same. In another letter, written to a Mr Bud Corliss, Dorothy's sister Ellen describes how she may have found the clue tot her sister's death by piecing together everything she knows about the case. She thinks tat Dorothy dad been on the point of marrying as, according to an old romantic tradition, she was wearing 'someting old, something new, something borrowed, something blue'. She ends the letter by saying that she is going to Stoddard University to find out who Dorothy's boyfriend - and murderer - was. At Stoddard Ellen and the Dean narrow the number of possible men down to two: only Gordon Gant and Dwight Powell seem to answer the vague description Dorothy had once given to Ellen. (he was in her English class during the fall semester, and that he was blond and hansome)
Ellen now wants to meet Gordon Gant whithout giving herself away. The first meeting is rather clumsy one(she says she is his cousin and that is has written him a letter that she'll bring him visit. When Gordon comes home he pretend he is her oncle). Later Gordon enters her hotelroom and he manages to read Ellen's letters to Bud Corliss. He now knows why she has come.
Ellen then decides to check out Dwight Powell. She takes him up to the roof of the Municipal building, hoping that he will betray himself. The reader is led to believe that Dwight has in fact killed Dorothy: he is nervous and starts sweating all over. But in the next chapter he proves to be innocent. He telles Ellen that he loved Dorothy but that she could not have been expecting his baby, because he had been in New York the whole of the previous spring. He does tell her, however that he felt responsible for her suicide. Ellen believes him. Dwight tells her that he has got the address of Dorothy's next boyfriend in one of his notebooks. They go to Dwight's place, where Bud who has overheard their conversations, was waiting for Dwight in a cupboard. When Dwight is looking...








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