Dickensian

Was sad to see that poor old Inspector Bucket had been thrown off the case and sent away to Moscow where he is now living a hand to mouth existence.

Now that we're talking about the baby, my mind is boggling at what Frances is going to do next! Just as we thought she would change her ways and live a more happy existence, she goes and does... what? I hope we find out tonight and the plot doesn't move to another part of the story.

Roses - I wondered whether the baby would be Miss Havisham's ward Estelle too.

If they don't travel too far away from Dickens and if the baby survives, won't it be Esther Summerson from Bleak House? Lady Dedlock's guilty secret? As Pittcity says?

If you really want to find out what happens to the baby just Google Bleak House and look at Wickywhatnot.

Lily I agree and that's the point really. Will baby Esther become the Esther from Bleak House or not? Will the whole series turn out to be a prequel of the various Dickens novels? We don't know how Jacob Marley died in A Christmas Carol and given that his ghost didn't appear until seven years after his death, perhaps he was murdered. Will any other characters end up with a different fate? Will Bill murder Nancy before the end of the series? Questions, questions.

Personally I think baby Esther will become Esther from Bleak House, but I am excited to find out.

Are we all supposed to be well-versed in Dickens to appreciate it then? The few of his books I read years ago, I have mostly long forgotten. I do remember Miss Havisham, and a family living in an upturned boat. And then there was Bell, Book and Candle. God knows what that was all about!

Roses, I laughed out loud at the fate of Inspector Bucket!!! He certainly did look very down at heel when he re emerged!!!
Thank goodness, I've been really worried about that baby to the point that I've been thinking that Frances might do away with her!, let's face it she's mad enough!! If baby is more than likely Esther, the she clearly survives!!!!
The Pegottys from David Copperfield lived in an upturned boat, but they're not featuring in Dickensian.

No need to be well versed in anything except Google nowadays jingl

But I can't google them all by 8.30.

It can't have been her, so who nicked her rolling pin?

Why would anyone leave their house and take a rolling pin with them?

Was Bell Book & Candle a Dickens book?

I think so phoenix. I had it in a paperback with some other Christmas stories. Think another one was called The Cricket on the Hearth. Didn't get far with that. Oxfammed the book years ago.

I might have been thinking of The Chimes.

It's a bit similar.

For some reason I thought it might be M.R. James, or Poe, but it seems it was Van Dryten?

I don't think I have read Bell Book and Candle. I don't know where I got that from.

I have finally caught up with this serial, watching three recorded episodes tonight.
It is really so cleverly constructed.

Why do you say that it can't be her Pittcity?

I can't be Mrs. Cratchett (unless she gets away with it) because Marley was bumped off years before Christmas Carol and they're all in that.

I think he lets her off.

That bleddy woman's Evil.I was worried sick about that baby.

Me too ...

Mrs Cratchett could have confessed to it because she thinks her husband might have done it and wants to protect him.