READERS GUIDE
Reader’s GuideMurder on Trinity Place by Victoria Thompson
Questions for Discussion
1. Remembering all the hoopla that surrounded New Year’s Eve 1999, were you surprised to find people felt completely different about the “turn of the century” in 1899?
2. Have you ever known anyone who developed an unreasonable obsession about something the way Mr. Pritchard does about the turn of the century?
3. Do you and your family have any special New Year’s Eve traditions?
4. Were you aware of the ways in which milk was adulterated in the Nineteenth Century?Does this change your opinion of the rules and regulations regarding food handling and preparation that we have today?
5. Many people enjoy Mrs. Ellsworth’s superstitions. Are you superstitious about anything?Do you have any special rituals (like First Stepper) that your family practices?
6. Were you happy to see Black Jack Robinson return to the series? Do you think his marriage will be successful?
7. While Americans did not traditionally have “arranged marriages,” as they did in European aristocracy, many families strongly influenced whom their children married. How do you feel about that? Do you think families have as much influence today on whom their children marry?
8. Have you ever played the game of Life? Were you aware of its history?
9. Why did you think Mrs. Pritchard was trying to prevent Frank and Sarah from investigating her husband’s murder?10. Did you have a theory about who the killer was? Were you correct?
10. Did you have a theory about who the killer was? Were you correct?
