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stoutfellowI just finished Turn Coat. :smug: I was right! :\smug:
I said that I was going on gut feelings in pegging Peabody, but there were actually a couple of reasons to support it. Doylistically, Peabody was a new character, and Butcher could sacrifice him without losing books-worth of character development. (Not a strong reason, seeing who else died, but a reason.) Watsonianally, much of the evidence against Morgan was paper-trail stuff - things that a bookkeeper like Peabody would be likely to think of and be capable of. I didn't, of course, see the depth of Peabody's betrayal, but given my track record I'm happy enough to have caught as much as I did.
On another note: the book mentions an encounter between Dresden and Uriel. I've read all of the Dresden novels up through this one and don't recall that. I see that there's also a canonical short story, "The Warrior". Is that where it happened, or am I just being forgetful? (Also: is it worth buying Mean Streets to get that story? I'm familiar with, and not very impressed by, Simon R. Green, and don't recognize the other two authors.)
I said that I was going on gut feelings in pegging Peabody, but there were actually a couple of reasons to support it. Doylistically, Peabody was a new character, and Butcher could sacrifice him without losing books-worth of character development. (Not a strong reason, seeing who else died, but a reason.) Watsonianally, much of the evidence against Morgan was paper-trail stuff - things that a bookkeeper like Peabody would be likely to think of and be capable of. I didn't, of course, see the depth of Peabody's betrayal, but given my track record I'm happy enough to have caught as much as I did.
On another note: the book mentions an encounter between Dresden and Uriel. I've read all of the Dresden novels up through this one and don't recall that. I see that there's also a canonical short story, "The Warrior". Is that where it happened, or am I just being forgetful? (Also: is it worth buying Mean Streets to get that story? I'm familiar with, and not very impressed by, Simon R. Green, and don't recognize the other two authors.)
