5/23/2023 0 Comments The pale horse marple![]() ![]() However Inspector Lejeune quickly dismisses Venables as a suspect when he learns that Venables had polio and is confined to a wheel-chair. Subsequently, Osbourne wrote to tell the police to report that, by coincidence, he had come across the same man at a village fete in Much Deeping.įrom Lejeune and Mark Easterbrook's point of view, Venables certainly seemed to be the man who has the intelligence to plan and manage the "murder-for-payment" scheme that linked to the murder of Father Gorman. Osbourne gave police a very definite description of him: thin, sloping shoulders, a very definite Adam's apple and a great beak of a nose. ![]() Venables becomes a suspect in the murder of Father Gorman after a pharmacist Zachariah Osbourne told the police that he saw him outside his shop following the Father. The source of Venables' wealth is, however, a mystery to the villagers. Venables can also converse on a wide range of topics from East or West Africa to Borneo. Rhoda believes Venables was an explorer or traveller of some sort as his house is filled with exotic works of art and cultural artefacts from all around the world. According to Rhoda Despard, the house was in bad condition and falling apart but Venables spent a lot of money restoring it. Venables bought the house about three years before the events in the book. Venables's house, Priors Court lies a few miles outside the village. In the novel The Pale Horse, Mr Venables is a wealthy man who lives at the village of Much Deeping in Devon. ![]()
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