5. Simeon Lee has four legitimate sons and brags of having fathered numerous others on "the wrong side of the blanket." How many of the characters in this novel are Simeon Lee's sons, legitimate and otherwise?
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Answer:
6
In addition to his four legitimate sons, Alfred, George, David, and Harry, there is Stephen Grant, alias Stephen Farr, and Superintendent Sugden. Although neither of these men bears Lee's name, they are his illegitimate offspring. The way the clues are dropped in this novel is particularly ingenious: most readers catch on that Stephen Farr and Harry Lee bear a striking resemblance to each other, are frequently mistaken for each other by other characters, and share some of the old man's mannerisms (such as stroking the jaw and laughing with the head thrown back). While we are congratulating ourselves on our powers of observation, the author is dropping more subtle hints that Sugden, whom we tend to discount because he is the investigating officer (forgetting one very famous instance in Christie of the detective as murderer; I won't say which!), shares these same mannerisms and is occasionally also mistaken for either Stephen Farr or Harry Lee.
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