Murder Mystery
May 4, 2012 22:51:52 GMT -5
Post by Victoire Lavergne on May 4, 2012 22:51:52 GMT -5
Ok so basically there is this little murder mystery that I wanna share with you. I do not know the answer, but I have a friend who does, and I know so many of the details that I can usually tell if the idea is good or not. I will try to help you as much as I can if you have questions. Google won't help. I didn't know to put this here or what board but yeahs. Oh and characters have REALLY creative names but yeah. Story is paraphrased.
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Characters: Master A; Master B; Master C; Master D; Servant 1; Servant 2; Servant 3
Master A is acting as the 'detective'
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Masters A, B, and C are having dinner. All of the servants are in the room, waiting for orders. Master D is in his study, eating dinner alone. The phone rings. Servant 3 answers it. It is Master D, and he asks Servant 3 to come to his study. Servant three leaves.
Now, Master C has asthma problems, and everyone knows this, but she has forgotten her inhaler. She begins choking at the table. Master A asks Servant 2 to go with Master C to Master C's room to get the inhaler.
About 30 minutes pass and Masters A and B and Servant 1 are worried about the others. They go to Master C's room. The door is locked. Servant 1 takes out his key and unlocks the door. To their horror, the room looks as if a hurricane had hit. The coffee table was upturned and everything was horribly messy. The windows are all still locked from the inside, though. And there is a trail of blood from the coffee table to behind the bed. Behind the bed is Servant 2, dead. Stab wound. In his pocket is his key.
They explore more and find that in the joining bathroom (which only has one door, to Master C's room, and one small, locked from the inside, window) the shower is running and the water is overflowing but the overflowing water is tainted with blood. The bathtub is filled with human organs, all mixed up. Not enough to make a FULL body though. And the hair matches Master C's. Master A turns off the shower and the water drains. In the tub is now a very short piece of string, Servant 3's key but it is destroyed, unusable, and Master C's key, along with the organs and hair.
Master D comes by and exclaims and asks what happened. Servant 3 never came to his study.
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Your job is not to find the who did it or the motive, but HOW. How did someone kill Servant 2 but the windows are all locked from the inside and the door is also locked. Servant 1, Master A and B are all accounted for. There is only one killer, no accomplices, however two people did die.
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Extra info: This is a mansion <---- Friend indicated this is important
Each of the servants have a key that unlocks all doors, and Master C's key unlocks only her door.
1960's
Feel free to ask me any and all questions, throw out theories. I will do my best to help.
Knox's laws ------->1. The criminal must be someone mentioned in the early part of the story, but must not be anyone whose thoughts the reader has been allowed to follow.
2. All supernaural or preternatural agencies are ruled out as a matter of course.
3. Not more than one secret room or passage is allowable. IN THIS STORY THERE ARE NO SECRET ROOMS/PASSAGES
4. No hitherto undiscovered poisons may be used, nor any appliance which will need a long scientific explanation at the end. NO ADVANCED TECH/POISONS IN THIS STORY
5. No Chinaman must figure in the story. N/A
6. No accident must ever help the detective, nor must he ever have an unaccountable intuition which proves to be right.
7. The detective must not himself commit the crime.
8. The detective must not light on any clues which are not instantly produced for the inspection of the reader.
9. The stupid friend of the detective, the Watson, must not conceal any thoughts which pass through his mind; his intelligence must be slightly, but very slightly, below that of the average reader.
10. Twin brothers, and doubles generally, must not appear unless we have been duly prepared for them. NO ONE IN THIS STORY PRETENDS TO BE ANOTHER
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Good luck
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Characters: Master A; Master B; Master C; Master D; Servant 1; Servant 2; Servant 3
Master A is acting as the 'detective'
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Masters A, B, and C are having dinner. All of the servants are in the room, waiting for orders. Master D is in his study, eating dinner alone. The phone rings. Servant 3 answers it. It is Master D, and he asks Servant 3 to come to his study. Servant three leaves.
Now, Master C has asthma problems, and everyone knows this, but she has forgotten her inhaler. She begins choking at the table. Master A asks Servant 2 to go with Master C to Master C's room to get the inhaler.
About 30 minutes pass and Masters A and B and Servant 1 are worried about the others. They go to Master C's room. The door is locked. Servant 1 takes out his key and unlocks the door. To their horror, the room looks as if a hurricane had hit. The coffee table was upturned and everything was horribly messy. The windows are all still locked from the inside, though. And there is a trail of blood from the coffee table to behind the bed. Behind the bed is Servant 2, dead. Stab wound. In his pocket is his key.
They explore more and find that in the joining bathroom (which only has one door, to Master C's room, and one small, locked from the inside, window) the shower is running and the water is overflowing but the overflowing water is tainted with blood. The bathtub is filled with human organs, all mixed up. Not enough to make a FULL body though. And the hair matches Master C's. Master A turns off the shower and the water drains. In the tub is now a very short piece of string, Servant 3's key but it is destroyed, unusable, and Master C's key, along with the organs and hair.
Master D comes by and exclaims and asks what happened. Servant 3 never came to his study.
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Your job is not to find the who did it or the motive, but HOW. How did someone kill Servant 2 but the windows are all locked from the inside and the door is also locked. Servant 1, Master A and B are all accounted for. There is only one killer, no accomplices, however two people did die.
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Extra info: This is a mansion <---- Friend indicated this is important
Each of the servants have a key that unlocks all doors, and Master C's key unlocks only her door.
1960's
Feel free to ask me any and all questions, throw out theories. I will do my best to help.
Knox's laws ------->1. The criminal must be someone mentioned in the early part of the story, but must not be anyone whose thoughts the reader has been allowed to follow.
2. All supernaural or preternatural agencies are ruled out as a matter of course.
3. Not more than one secret room or passage is allowable. IN THIS STORY THERE ARE NO SECRET ROOMS/PASSAGES
4. No hitherto undiscovered poisons may be used, nor any appliance which will need a long scientific explanation at the end. NO ADVANCED TECH/POISONS IN THIS STORY
5. No Chinaman must figure in the story. N/A
6. No accident must ever help the detective, nor must he ever have an unaccountable intuition which proves to be right.
7. The detective must not himself commit the crime.
8. The detective must not light on any clues which are not instantly produced for the inspection of the reader.
9. The stupid friend of the detective, the Watson, must not conceal any thoughts which pass through his mind; his intelligence must be slightly, but very slightly, below that of the average reader.
10. Twin brothers, and doubles generally, must not appear unless we have been duly prepared for them. NO ONE IN THIS STORY PRETENDS TO BE ANOTHER
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Good luck
