I'm about to yap, but I have a question about the Christmas Murder Most Unladylike book, the one where Daisy and Hazel go and visit Bertie. I can't remember most of the names and so on, which is crazy, because it's a book with Bertie in it, and he's my favourite character.
But basically, right at the end, where they've almost discovered who the murderer is, when they're not sure if they should go and check one more suspect, or if the one they have now is obviously it, and Hazel's like, "No, we can't do that. We have to make sure we've counted everyone out" and Daisy's like, "Well, it's so unlikely for it to be this guy" George is like, "OK, so we'll flip a coin on who gets to investigate which suspect" and then he flips a coin, and George and Alexander get the one both George and Daisy want to investigate guy.
Then in some mini-story, a letter that Alexander sends Hazel, I think it might be the Hound of Baskerville one, but I'm not sure. He writes about how he and George flipped a coin, and then he later says "Never flip a coin with George. I think he's cheating, but I can't prove it."
Firstly, when does this letter canonically get sent to Hazel?
Like, is it before the Christmas book, which would make more sense, because why would you tell her not to flip the coin with George when she's already done it? Or is it after, which makes less sense?
I think, here, in the real world, like when the book's released, it's after, because it's kind of like a throwback for the reader. Like, you're reminded of the time she flipped a coin with George, and it went in his favour. So like, yeah, he's probably kind of cheating.
And then my second question, is this just something you added, or is it like, is it an actual way to cheat with a coin, you know?
Because like, I think it only got mentioned like those two times, right? Like, we never talk about it again, which is fine, obviously, but like, I'm just wondering, it's just something you came up with and thought, yeah, let's just make it that George really good at cheating with coins, or did this actually like happen to you, or someone you know who's really good at always getting their way when they flip coins?
I was kind of interested in that.
Also sorry this is so long, I used Voice-To-Text and started talking 😭😭
Right so I think you’re talking about Mistletoe and Murder, and the coin toss in that? It’s set Christmas 1935, and then the Hound short story is late autumn 1936 - so almost a year later. I meant that little reference to be a callback to the Mistletoe coin toss, and a hint that George perhaps wasn’t being entirely honest! Whether Alex knew at the time, or realised later (probably the second, he is such a sweet and honest boy!), he has worked it out by the time he’s writing to Hazel.
There are lots of ways you can cheat at coin toss - you can turn it in your hand once it’s been flipped, you can start the flip with it turned the way you want (and practice making sure it comes down the way it goes up), or you can just cheat when you call it. I have May do this a few times - she says ‘Heads I win, tails you lose!’ which of course means she will always win! George is not as openly dishonest a character as May, but he’s always happy to game the system to get what he wants. And I think he did in that scene!
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