Posted by David Bamford on January 13, 2010 at 14:58:16 user David.
In Reply to: Re: Missee Lee posted by andyb on January 13, 2010 at 13:34:16:
I think that latin was used by AR as a vehicle for giving Roger his chance at the spotlight. In the other stories he's an 'also-ran', but in ML he gets to shine. Yes, it could have been any one of the other areas of study that you mention, but it happened to be latin. Did AR want to give his own knowledge of latin an airing? Could be. As Andrew said, the plot has more twists and turns than a Chinese dragon.
David.