

Fox, plays Bluebeard, although the women he kills off are fictional characters in his novels.

Fox of Helen Oyeyemi’s latest novel, also titled Mr. Read the last Bookslut on Pricing Beauty and what modeling can tell us about real-world economics. “Once upon a time there lived a man who possessed fine houses in town and in the country, dishes and plates of silver and gold, furniture all covered in embroidery, and carriages all gilded.” So opens the tale of Bluebeard in Charles Perrault’s original version of the story, but unfortunately, the man also had a stack of dead wives in all of those gilded houses, as he had a nasty habit of killing off the women he loved.
