Brat Farrar
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Solution to the Mystery (Spoiler Alert!)
Carolyn
Jan 01, 2020 10:03AM
I have just finished reading BRAT FARRAR for the nth time and enjoyed it as always. However, I am still trying to figure out how Patrick’s murderer managed to “be in two places at the same time” and I cannot find where Tey explained that. How did he manage to be at the smithy AND on the cliff? Or were those two places actually close together, and the real key is that Patrick did not drown at one place but was thrown over the cliff in an entirely different place?
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He didn't have to be two places at the same time because he placed the idea in people's heads, with the fake note, that the boy died by the sea.
The killer could easily have gone to the actually murder location on his bike from the forge, either some time during the day, or on his way home, and killed the boy and thrown him in the quarry.
When everyone was out looking that night for the boy, the killer left the note and jacket at the farther location, to make people think the boy died over there.
Sometime later, even days later, he got rid of the distinctive pen he had used to write the note, by throwing it in the quarry.
The killer's favorite spot was by the sea. The victim's favorite spot was by the quarry. This gave Brat the clue as to the true murder spot.
I hope that is right! It's what I understood.
The killer could easily have gone to the actually murder location on his bike from the forge, either some time during the day, or on his way home, and killed the boy and thrown him in the quarry.
When everyone was out looking that night for the boy, the killer left the note and jacket at the farther location, to make people think the boy died over there.
Sometime later, even days later, he got rid of the distinctive pen he had used to write the note, by throwing it in the quarry.
The killer's favorite spot was by the sea. The victim's favorite spot was by the quarry. This gave Brat the clue as to the true murder spot.
I hope that is right! It's what I understood.
So the point is simply that, while he "had never been out of the Clare valley" that day, Tanbitches is located in the valley?
The smith still says that "I had to shoo him home for his supper" after they had been putting a fresh tyre on a cartwheel, so unless Patrick was birdwatching very late that day the alibi of having been in someone else's presence all the time still seems fairly solid...
The smith still says that "I had to shoo him home for his supper" after they had been putting a fresh tyre on a cartwheel, so unless Patrick was birdwatching very late that day the alibi of having been in someone else's presence all the time still seems fairly solid...
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