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Peabody, Cowel, and the other Necromancers.

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Walter the skull:
Not all of these people can be working with each other.  In Dead Beat everyone wanted a copy of Peabody's book on the Earlking.  Cowel wanted Harry to give him the book.  Harry refused, so Kumori proposed that Harry destroy the book as a compromise.  This suggest a few different scenarios. 

1.  Cowel was confident he could get another copy of the book or he already had a copy of it.  If he was on the same team as Peabody, you would think Peabody would've either given him an author copy, or just told him what he needed to know. 

2.  Cowel thinks he can kick the other the necromancers asses and get a copy from one of them.  The question is why would Cowel risk it?  The other necromancer seem to be more dangerous than Harry.  Does Cowel simply like Harry, or does he think Harry could be useful to him.

3.  The other necromancers wanted the book, so did they not have access to Peabody? 

4.  Peabody doesn't want to tell Cowel or the other necromancer what they need to know or share his author copy with them.

5.  Peabody was not working for the same team as Cowel during Dead Beat, but some time between then and Turn Coat changed teams.

6.  Kumori's offer was bs and they would've just take the book from Harry as soon as he set it down to destroy it.

I'm trying to figure out how Peabody fits in with the characters in Dead Beat.  He wrote the book, so I think it would be kind of strange if he wasn't involved to some degree.

What do you think?

g33k:
Peabody wasn't particularly a necromancer.  He was (presumably) a "Black Council" agent.

The Kemmlerite's were a different organization.  It's not impossible some members overlapped, but the two groups are / were distinct.

morriswalters:
Cowl didn't need either of the books.  He wanted Bob the Skull. He had a copy of the book on the Earl King.  Since he had been tracking them down and destroying them.  The more interesting thing here is that he knew of Bob and he knew that Harry had him.

Walter the skull:
g33k:  I know Peabody isn't a necromancer. When I looked at the title of the thread, I can definitely see how it looks like I think he is.  I need to rethink the title of the thread.

Morriswalters:  Do we know for a fact that he had a copy of the book?  Bob being Cowel's end goal is a good point.

morriswalters:

--- Quote ---"Is that what you're doing?" I asked. "Going around trashing copies?"

"There were fewer than a thousand printed," Kumori confirmed. "Time has taken most of them. Over the past month we have accounted for the rest, but for two here, in Chicago, in this store."
--- End quote ---
That would appear to cover it.

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