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Jan 17, 2014 03:47PM
I've read the book series about 6 times and the same question comes to me every time. How do we know who put the arsenic on the cookies?? In the 1987 movie they showed the mother doing it, but in the book it wasn't made clear that it was the mother. How did you figure out who was trying to kill them? Mom or grandmother? And did the grandmother know??
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I think it was the fact that when Chris and Cathy went down to their mothers room and saw that she left her old wedding ring behind and took everything else was when I assumed she was the one who poisoned them. Is it mentioned in Petals in the Wind? Or If There Be Thorns?? I swear they said something but I can't remember.
And to add the the response above, in the book, when Chris found about the codicil in the will, about how Corrine would be disinherited if its was proven that she had children previously, I think he put two and two together and figured if that was true, then she would have to be the one to put the arsenic on the doughnuts.
Matty wrote: "And to add the the response above, in the book, when Chris found about the codicil in the will, about how Corrine would be disinherited if its was proven that she had children previously, I think h..."YES! Okay now I remember! I remember Cathy being dumb too when they found out that their grandfather had been dead for a year and she was still asking if that meant they could come downstairs. Oh my god and how she didn't even get the arsenic bit of it until Chris spelled it out for her. Damn Cathy.
I think in the third book when Cathy and Corrine are held captive Corrine says something like "I just wanted you to get sick so I could take you out. I didn't want you to die" in reference to the cookies. until then Cathy and Chris had always assumed the Grandmother did it. if I remember correctly
Tina wrote: "I think in the third book when Cathy and Corrine are held captive Corrine says something like "I just wanted you to get sick so I could take you out. I didn't want you to die" in reference to the c..."Ok I remember now. Corrine did admit to being the one who did it. I wonder if the grandmother knew. Seems like actively murdering children would be a big enough sin to make her say something.
Tina wrote: "I think in the third book when Cathy and Corrine are held captive Corrine says something like "I just wanted you to get sick so I could take you out. I didn't want you to die" in reference to the c..."DING DING! The first book and the last book are the best!
Tina wrote: "I think in the third book when Cathy and Corrine are held captive Corrine says something like "I just wanted you to get sick so I could take you out. I didn't want you to die" in reference to the c..." It was the second book I thought, and they were not held captive, Bart took them into the other room away from the party guest to get the whole story.Laci wrote: "I've read the book series about 6 times and the same question comes to me every time. How do we know who put the arsenic on the cookies?? In the 1987 movie they showed the mother doing it, but in ..."
You just reminded me, I reread the first two books just a few months ago and was thinking it was in the first book, but it is in the second, at the end. The mother confessed to poisoning the cookies to make the kids sick so they needed to be put in the hospital so she could sneak them out of the house. So Corrine says.....
I read this series 30 years ago. Now that I've seen the movie, I want to read it again! How does a person track rereads on goodreads? For example, if I read a book in 1980 and then, again, in 2014, I would like it be documented as read in both times.
Totally right about being second book. When they are held captive Corrine does have a long monologue while Cathy is partially unconscious where she talks about why she did what she did. I remember crying... no... SOBBING my eyes out reading the third. I was 10 or 11 at most.
