"The fact that you, Frothingham, claimed you discovered the body at exactly 12:13 P.M. was what first made me suspicious, of course. And then when Billington claimed that he had heard the clock chime the quarter hour just as he and Miss Arbuthnot met for their little assignation in the study, it was clear that you, Merryweather . . ." : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

Record ID: 
266590
Accession number: 
MA 12662
Author: 
Richter, Mischa, 1910-2001.
Published: 
1981.
Credit: 
The Melvin R. Seiden Collection. Gift of Janine Luke in honor of William M. Griswold and in memory of Melvin R. Seiden, 2011.
Description: 
1 drawing.
Notes: 

Original drawing for a cartoon published in The New Yorker, Oct. 12, 1981.
Another version of the same drawing is MA 12687.

Summary: 

Parrot inspector on a perch reveals the machinations of a murder to an assembled group of people in a mansion study, as if he were the protagonist in an Agatha Christie book.

Medium: 
Compressed black chalk pencil and pen, brush and black ink with correction fluid, on paper.
Dimensions: 
372 x 465 mm
Provenance: 
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Catalog Link: 
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Classification: 
Drawing
Department: 
Literary and Historical Manuscripts