Talk:Trent's Last Case (novel)

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Discussion about spoiler[edit]

This description of a detective novel has a great big spoiler! Surely this is a non-no in Wikipedia as much as elsewhere? And without even a SPOILER warning.
Dandrake 09:23, 17 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Hi Dandrake. First of all there is a spoiler warning. Secondly, the plot is only very superficially summed up exactly because we do not want to give away too much. What more can we do? What exactly is the "great big spoiler" you're talking about? The fact that Trent gets it all wrong? --KF 09:30, 17 Aug 2003 (UTC)


My really stupid mistake: I wasn't reading thoroughly. However, as to the spoiler itself: Having read this, you know who the killer is at the moment Trent sits down to dinner; this is more than "Trent gets it all wrong." That's a great big spoiler, but since there is indeed a spoiler warning, aything goes. No problem. Dandrake 09:50, 17 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Having read the novel (and wikified it for Wikisource!), I can assure you that this summary gives away nothing of import. By the time Trent sits down to dinner, he has managed to thoroughly confuse the reader with quite logical deductions that turn out to be flawed. I could write a more detailed summary — which would be a real spoiler — but not right now. (The book's a good read, BTW.) --Quuxplusone 03:52, 2 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Classed as High priority partly due to multiple film versions :: Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/(Desk) 14:37, 21 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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