The Who Am I Game?

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Bathsheba (as in Gabriel)?

[Ridgley]

A clue I am a politician?

[aquarius moon]

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> Bathsheba (as in Gabriel)?

Another close guess, but not quite there yet

Eta: It was a different Angel.

Bathsheba wasn't ill-fated. She had a happy ending.

My character didn't.

[DulwichFox]

We seem to have two games going on here..

Ridgley.. It's not your turn.. You have to solve aquarius moon's game to play..

Foxy

[civilservant]

Tess of the D'Urbervilles (but if that's right el P got it before me I think)

[civilservant]

Ridgeley not your turn, but you must mean Gideon Osborne aka Jeffrey O, mustn't you?

[aquarius moon]

Well done civilservant, Tess of the D'Urbervilles is right.

Thomas Hardy's ill-fated heroine (married to 'Angel' Clare.

I also think EP knew it ages ago, but for some reason, didn't post the answer!

So I guess........

It's over to you.

[civilservant]

oh no... here goes

Though very few know his full name, this Frenchman is much more famous than his Belgian originator

[aquarius moon]

Tintin?

[civilservant]

sorry, no (Tintin is Belgian!)

[ianr]

Maigret

[El Pibe]

Just for the record I didn't. I got the Wessex reference but had only read the one blighted tragic novel.

Can't stand the writings of the whole damned Victorian lot of them, with an exception for some dickens.

Dreary bunch, always full of women staring out of windows, whining about ducks going to Moseley ;)

[aquarius moon]

El Pibe Wrote:

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> Just for the record I didn't. I got the Wessex

> reference but had only read the one blighted

> tragic novel.

> Can't stand the writings of the whole damned

> Victorian lot of them, with an exception for some

> dickens.

> Dreary bunch, always full of women staring out of

> windows, whining about ducks going to Moseley ;)

Apologies. I just thought you couldn't be bothered to tax your brain thinking up clues on this lovely, sunny weekend!

As for T. Hardy, I agree his books were a bit dreary, but the film & tv adaptions were great.

[civilservant]

ianr Wrote:

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> Maigret

over to you, ianr

sorry for keeping everyone in suspense

ETA I haven't read a lot of Hardy but what I've read is pretty good and cracks along - you're being rather unfair, EP and AM! Probably too many set books at school.

I'd rather read a proper solid Victorian novel with ladies and ducks than many of today's lot, obesessing solipsistically about (usually failed) relationships and alcohol/cigs/other stuff.

[ianr]

Just seen this. Sorry for the delay. And my clue is ...

Some day my ship will come.

[aquarius moon]

Chuck Noland/Castaway?

[ianr]

Nope.

[El Pibe]

Kurtz?

[aquarius moon]

Robinson Crusoe?

[ianr]

No, No.

[ianr]

I'll save any further clue until I've heard from the morning shift, assuming they survive the night.

[civilservant]

Madame Butterfly?

Dick Whittington?

Ben Gunn?

[ianr]

None of the above, though cs's suggestion of a lyrical character gets us closer.

[aquarius moon]

The Count/ The boat that rocked?

[ianr]

I had to look that up. No. But a useful line of thought.