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The Voice of Stentor


Our word “stentorian” is from Greek mythology. Stentor, mentioned in Homer's The Iliad, was a herald in the Trojan War. Homer wrote of brazen-voiced Stentor, whose cry was as loud as that of fifty men together. So, anyone with a stentorian voice has a voice like the mythical Stentor.

 

In “The Bodyguard”, a story in The Deadliest Returns, Miriam once again works with Professor Jason, the leper-white, thin-lipped physician at the medical school who investigates the deaths that baffle the magistrates.

 

She tells us about him:

 

Although he still spoke in the precisely articulated diction of a scholar, instead of his usual stentorian voice, deep enough to boom across a lecture hall, his tone was as thin and dry as a sheet of papyrus. . . . I noticed he’d also grown thinner than when I last saw him two years ago. And looking more closely, I saw that his hair was a shade whiter and the creases scouring his brow were deeper. But if I squinted, I could see the man as he was when we last worked together.


Miriam’s question is why would such a learned man be consulting me and with a quaver in his voice besides. So, I dispensed with the usual pleasantries and waited for him to begin.

You and I know the professor is consulting her because he himself is baffled by a most shocking death. Come help them solve the murder in “The Bodyguard”. Just click here.


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