more about my murder mystery....

ok, so i am done with all 7 of the tapes with my library 'book'......and til the end, the murderer of the cook was not named.......the sleuth/narrator was following a cross between an agatha christie english manor house mystery, and a phillip marlowe/sam spade hardboiled mystery......so at the end....the female sidekick (who in this case is short and lesbian...go figure.....) asks the rampantly heterosexual burglar/bookstore owner who killed the cook.....he replied that he did not know.....he knew who killed the pseudo-victorian male model, and the silent, stiff-upper lip brit, and the hapless handyman......but not who killed the cook..........he quoted a line from the filming of the big sleep, in which the actors were debating a line in the screenplay......who had killed the chauffeur....they called in the author, who said that he did not know who killed the chauffeur........yes, he wrote the book, but he did not know the answer to all questions..........ah well.........in agatha's books, we always knew who killed who.........that is the shame about american things./..we are sometimes ok with a story half-told........