(urth) The Sorcerer's House Questions (*Major Spoilers*)

[Dave Tallman]

Jonathan Goodwin wrote:
> ...I agree that
> Bax is the exact type who would want to defraud/murder his brother and
> then brag about it in an obscure form. I just don't think we need the
> compiler identification to make this work.
>   
I agree that making the compiler Bax, so that all the supporting 
evidence can be lies (the storage cabinet and the description of the 
Japanese sword by Mrs. Dunn that is good enough for an expert, for 
example) is cheating, taking away the suspension of disbelief to an 
extreme extent. Push this too far, and you arrive at the true but 
uninteresting conclusion that this is a work of fiction and none of the 
characters are real.

The independent evidence of the letters from others, especially the 
challenge letter by George on pp. 261-262, shows that what Bax says 
about the supernatural world is essentially true. Is that letter 
supposedly forged by Bax?

One question for me is the identity of the "wonderful girl who really 
knows her way around that place."  I suspect it is Doris, who might have 
thought George was the winning side. She does know more of the 
supernatural than first appears, given her connection to her 
ghost-husband Ted. It could possibly be Lupine, but it's doubtful 
because she's all about Emlyn.