"The fact that you, Frothingham, claimed you discovered the body at exactly 12:13 P.M. was what first made me suspicious, of course. And then when Billington claimed that he had heard the clock chime the quarter hour just as he and Miss Arbuthnot met for their little assignation in the study, it was clear that you, Merryweather . . ." : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

BIB_ID

266590

Accession number

MA 12662

Creator

Richter, Mischa, 1910-2001.

Published

1981.

Credit line

The Melvin R. Seiden Collection. Gift of Janine Luke in honor of William M. Griswold and in memory of Melvin R. Seiden, 2011.

Description

1 drawing.

Notes

Original drawing for a cartoon published in The New Yorker, Oct. 12, 1981.
Another version of the same drawing is MA 12687.

372 x 465 mm

Provenance

Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.

Summary

Parrot inspector on a perch reveals the machinations of a murder to an assembled group of people in a mansion study, as if he were the protagonist in an Agatha Christie book.

Medium

Compressed black chalk pencil and pen, brush and black ink with correction fluid, on paper.

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Classification

Drawing

Department

Literary and Historical Manuscripts

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