I think that they only did 6 of the episodes and certainly not 'An excellent mystery'.

But, if they had I am sure that they could have fudged the issue - after all, even in the book it only says 'from the left hip. where the bone had survived by a miracle, slantwise across his belly and deep, deep into the groin'. It is only later it says 'Here ends his line, in a noble plant incapable of seed' so they could leave it as a horrendous injury.

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colin (imported) wrote: Wed Oct 20, 2004 10:43 am I think that they only did 6 of the episodes and certainly not 'An excellent mystery'.

But, if they had I am sure that they could have fudged the issue - after all, even in the book it only says 'from the left hip. where the bone had survived by a miracle, slantwise across his belly and deep, deep into the groin'. It is only later it says 'Here ends his line, in a noble plant incapable of seed' so they could leave it as a horrendous injury.

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It would have seriously weakened the story, which hinges on the abandonment of a long-arranged marriage because of the man's inability to consummate it.

There's a rather similar situation in Dorothy L Sayers' first Peter Wimsey novel, where the victim's body was concealed by exchanging it with a corpse from a medical school dissecting room. DLS's publisher refused to countenance the original version of the proof of the swap, which was that the victim (who was a Jew) was circumcised.