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I've just realized that I contributed an incorrect edit summary, for which I apologize. I removed a reference to a "Miss Sheppard", although I didn't check the source, which was unavailable to me; I'm well read in detective fiction reference material and haven't heard of this individual, can't find a reference on the net, and suggest that the reference will be incomprehensible to the average reader (whereas Miss Marple will be known). Accounting4Taste:talk 20:29, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
That makes sense; I'm not familiar with Miss Sheppard either, but she is definitely mentioned in the source, which, by the way, is available via Google Books. Best, Ricardiana (talk) 21:09, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Much obliged for the pointer; I looked at the reference and note that Miss Sheppard refers to a character in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd whose profession is not that of detective (she's the narrator's sister) and this confirms me in my suggestion that the reference will not be useful to the average reader. My mistaken assumption had been, based on how I read the quote, that the suggestion was that Miss Sheppard was a detective and I searched for elucidation on that basis. Accounting4Taste:talk 20:22, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
