Chapter 2
Tulkinghorn introduced as 'an oyster of the old school whom nobody can open,' the silent receptacle of family confidences.
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The Dedlock family lawyer, repository of aristocratic secrets, dressed always in rusty black—an emblem of patient, malevolent surveillance.
Chapter 48 (Closing In)
Tulkinghorn is found shot dead in his chambers, beneath the painted Roman pointing from the ceiling—one of the great murder scenes in Victorian fiction.
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