Long Jetty is the intended setting for a planned abduction in the account of a stranger questioned by Hades. A group of six men drove there after learning that the Tenor family would be alone at their holiday house, making the location central to their plan to seize the children and demand an exchange.

Setting and Planned Abduction

The stranger said the group had received word that the family would be alone at its holiday house in Long Jetty. They drove there as a group of six, intending to take the children for a few days and later arrange an exchange. He described the scheme as a temporary kidnapping and claimed they did not intend to harm the children; he had even borrowed games for them to play while they were held.

Narrative Significance

Long Jetty enters the account through a retrospective explanation of the planned crime. The stranger attributed the idea to Benny, whose interest in the wealthy family had grown after he circulated newspaper clippings about the father’s work on skin cancer or sunburn. The account establishes Long Jetty as the location chosen for the attempt, but does not specify what happened at the holiday house after the group arrived.