Talk:Frank Vosper

Everyman's Guide to the Mysteries of Agatha Christie by Bruce Pendergast

Everyman's Guide to the Mysteries of Agatha Christie by Bruce Pendergast is used as the source of the following material:

"At the time there was a considerable debate because Vosper was a well-known homosexual and it was said by many that it was because he found his lover flirting with a beauty queen that he threw himself from the ocean liner."

This fails verification on two levels.

I tried to verify this, and on pages 430-431 of Pendergast's Everyman's Guide to the Mysteries of Agatha Christie we have:

"It is thought he committed suicide because he was a homosexual and that sexual preference was certainly more frowned upon in the mid-30's than it is today. In the play Flaws in the Glass by Patrick White, Vosper is said to have 'thrown himself off a liner after finding his male lover flirting with a beauty queen'."

I tried to verify Pendergast's source. The first problem is that Patrick White's Flaws in the Glass is not a play but an autobiography. The second problem is that Frank Vosper is not mentioned in Flaws in the Glass at all.

There is nothing in Pendergast's book to back up "At the time there was a considerable debate because Vosper was a well-known homosexual", and the source Pengergast cites for the quote concerning "and it was said by many that it was because he found his lover flirting with a beauty queen that he threw himself from the ocean liner" fails verification itself.

I may be able to find other sources regarding Vosper's sexual orientation because I recall reading that elsewhere, but I've never read anything regarding this "male lover" theory. --199.249.230.101 (talk) 04:10, 8 May 2017 (UTC)