Exitus

“Lambe didn’t kill the provost. He believes she killed herself because she didn’t have children. Doolittle told me. He was blacked out on her couch the night she fell. But Doolittle was also passed out at the time.”

“Why didn’t he give that alibi to the police?”

“He wanted to protect his reputation?”

“What reputation?”

“It’s a French philosophical thing. Deconstruction.”

“I see,” Wallace said, not seeing at all.