![]() In addition to the pupils we have the teachers, each of whom is given a full and rounded personality in very few words. ![]() We are introduced to a number of the girls, all of whom take a liking to Miss Pym, perhaps because she is not staff but an outsider who brings something a little different into their lives. Gradually the few more days turn into a longer stay, which is finally interrupted by a tragic event. However, her old school friend, Henrietta, the college principal, manages to persuade her to stay for a few more days. Originally the arrangement had been that, as a best-selling author of a book on psychology, she should deliver a lecture to the girls. ![]() It had never been Lucy Pym's intention to stay more than one night at Leys Physical Training College. Such is definitely not the case with Miss Pym Disposes. At its worse the plot itself – and its final denouement – lack any real interest because the people involved simply do not engage the attention. ![]() ![]() This kind of literature became known as the ‘whodunit?’ in which the attention paid to the final outcome was often at the expense of the characterisation. Crime novels from the 1930s and 1940s are normally concerned with a murder followed by a gradual and frequently technical exposition of how it was carried out and, of course, who was responsible. ![]()
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