A Theory: Eddie Dantes is the murderer
– the soup itself is a red herring, which he ate first
– “I don’t think he’s breathing”; “I can’t find a pulse”; “This wisp of a woman is right, he’s not breathing” – no one ever says he’s actually “dead” whereas the other’s are all confirmed as deceased; AND everyone has a relatively clear cause of death – Eddie is just face down in his soup but we don’t know *why* he “dies”
– he has a connection to everyone and therefore, potentially, a motive to kill each of them (and wasn’t the gentleman he pretended to be)
– several owed him money (Wells, Hemingway, Charlotte)
– he knew Eliot’s true identity
– had a professional/creative fight with Shelley
– was left alone in the dining room with ample time to plant the (poorly written) note and rig up Wells’ machine to the other door
– the note is addressed to “authors”, not “fellow authors”
– his character card was for Virgil the Orangutan, a reference to Poe’s actual short story, “Murders in the Rue Morgue”, wherein the culprit and murderer was an escaped orangutan
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