Over the weekend, I found out, a step behind the new cycle, of the death of Deborah Jean Palfrey, the “DC Madam” – a rather hastily arrived at “suicide by hanging” was the finding. Interestingly enough, the main person championing this finding – the only one to whom she seems to have said she was going to kill herself – was Dan Moldea, who’s been saying, “Nothing to see here, citizens…move along!” for many years now, explaining away the deaths of Bobby Kennedy, Jimmy Hoffa, and Vince Foster among others. In Moldea’s world, covertly despondent people cap themselves in the back of the head from twenty-five yards all the time, don’tcha know*, and he seems to have been trotted out once again in this case.
Literary criticism has its “pre-critical response”; our trivia team at the pub has its rule of “the first answer is the one you go with”…I don’t know all the particulars of the case, and I’m not sure it’s germane to the real story**, but this certainly has a particular “feel” to it, to the point that some commonfolk called it in advance – and when that’s the case, someone – someone – should sit up and take notice.
* Being a subject of Dan Moldea’s writing must be similar to being a friend of Jessica Fletcher’s. If she arrives in town to catch up with an old friend and have a cup of tea, run, do not walk outta that town. You don’t want to be the latest subject for her investigation…
** You can study a tree right down to each crag in the bark, but that’ll never tell you where it is in the forest.
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