Murder Ink: The Mystery
Reader's Companion and "Perpetrated by Dilys Winn," (Workman Publishing Company, Inc.; New York; 1977; in the addition
at the end of the book) . . . .
This book has some wonderful ways of dealing with
people who spoil stories for others! . . .
On the very back page is the warning:
FIT PUNISHMENTS
FOR THOSE WHO REVEAL THE ENDINGS OF MYSTERIES
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1. Have them framed by Agatha Christie.
2. Have them waited on by the housekeeper at Manderley.
3. Have them stuffed up a chimney by an orang-utan.
4. Have them interrupted in the shower by Norman
Bates.
5. Have them licked to death by the Hound of the
Baskervilles.
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