Perishable Goods · Character
Casemate
An unseen invalid nursed by a Salzburg surgeon after a riding accident in Carinthia, kept company by thirty novels while the hunt for Adèle Pleydell gathers pace.
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Casemate exists at the edge of the story as a broken body in a Salzburg sickroom, the casualty of a country that has already proven hostile to the Pleydell circle. The thirty novels sent to ease his convalescence…
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Relationship types
- Professional
- Other
Character groups
- Central Intrigue Network
- Protagonist
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- Setup
- Escalation
- Breaking point
Mansel’s fatal wounding and his calm acceptance of death (“Rot… Luck of the battle”) mark the irreversible tur…
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- Rose Noble
professional · positive
- Jonathan Mansel
professional · ambivalent
- Jonathan Mansel
professional · ambivalent
- Rose Noble
professional · positive
- Rose Noble
professional · positive
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