ABSTRACT
Tom Driscoll in Pudd'nhead Wilson is an Injun Joe a cross-blood character as a mulatto, but his antagonism against the father figure is more clearly thematized, since he actually kills him. He was born to Roxy, a one-sixteenth-black mulatto mother, and was originally named Chambers. Mark Twain obscures the patricidal story by bifurcating it into two sets of surrogate fathers and sons, from the original Archy Jacob relation, via the Archy Jacob the cousin relation, to the Flint Fetlock relation. A Double Barrelled Detective Story more clearly thematizes the criminality in a crossbreed son within a patricidal framework. In the story, a white slave father creates a crossbreed son between a man and a dog, kills though indirectly his father-in-law, and becomes a target of his son's revenge. A Double Barrelled Detective Story, includes all the motifs traced before: tracking clews, cross-blood characters, and patricide.
