-Poul Anderson, "The Sorrow of Odin the Goth" IN Anderson, Time Patrol (Riverdale, NY, 2010), pp. 333-465 AT 374, p. 465.
As we have noticed before, Huns and thunder approach together.
"He went into his room and shut the door, and immediately afterwards I heard him turn the key in the lock.
"Overhead there was a low rumbling of thunder. The storm was coming nearer.
"I went to bed with a slightly uneasy feeling induced by the sound of that turning key.
"It suggested, very faintly, sinister possibilities."
-Agatha Christie, Curtain: Poirot's Last Case (Glasgow, 1980), CHAPTER SEVENTEEN, p. 155.
Here, thunder and murder approach together. Thunder plays an identical role in both narratives.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
When it comes to mysteries, I was never that much of a fan of Agatha Christie, despite reading a fair number of her books. I was fonder of, say, John Dickson Carr's books or Robert van Gulik's Judge Dee mysteries.
Sean
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