POE, HARRISON - My fictional American counterpart, contrived by my cousin Pamela for the enterainment of numbskulls. The experienced investigator recognises that the most elaborate of fantasies are invariably constructed around a kernel of truth. Pamela's narrative, unravelling over the course of 'Harrison's' mother's funeral, is indisputably based upon actual events. Pamela makes a great deal, for example, of the reception 'Harrison' hosts to give notice of his mother's passing. I've no compunction in conceding that a similar event was held in the House of Coe. I'm not sure why she finds this so remarkable. She must have witnessed stranger events during her time in Los Angeles. Certainly there was a minor incendiary incident involving one of my mother's friends, but the blaze was extinguished without any of the hullaballoo described by the story's precocious narrator 'Patsy', (a figment borne of characteristics borrowed from Christine, Muriel and Pamela herself.)

See also PAMELA'S MANUSCRIPT, PART ONE, PAMELA'S MANUSCRIPT PART TWO,

PAMELA'S MANUSCRIPT, PART THREE

 

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