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Mystery: September 04, 2024 Issue [#12726]




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My gift to you for the WDC Birthday Bash week is a little list I keep for those pesky I-need-to-write emergencies.

Hope it’s helpful!

HAPPY 24 BIRTHDAY WDC!
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1. Crimed: where the crime is actually done by one person merely to throw guilt into another to get the innocent unaware person in trouble, ruin their reputation, or get them out of the way. Or even to distract others while a bigger badder crime takes place…

2. In Plain Sight: where the evil deed-doer has rigged things so well, either by leaving false clues or by disguise or by designing, and thereby directing the blame toward someone(s) else.

3. “Happy” mistakes: where the criminal(s) accidentally bring about their getting away with (the crime) through a series of mishaps and what they perceive as bad luck blunders.

4. Innocent, I Tell Ya! The crime wasn’t a crime at all. It was just a crazy one of those things that took on a snowball-effect life-of-it’s-own.

5. The Minor Happenstance. Example: Who stole the potted mums from Mrs. Rossi’s front porch. (That leads to uncovering a series of neighborhood crimes and the minor crime syndicate.)

6. My favorite: The full-blown multi-character conspiracy. Complete with murder, mayhem, character defaming, ruined relationships and false flags, missing witnesses, underworld involvement, back-stabbing, witnesses in hiding, innocents accidentally involved…
I love this!

7. Unsolved
The criminal actually goes undiscovered, and thereby gets away with it. Can this be done in fiction?

8. The Genre or Double Genre
No reason why mystery’s need be boxed-in. How about a space odyssey/horror. We all know this has been done with great success.

9. Fiction No-Nos
Are there any types or kinds of whodonits that are off limits? 🙄😁

What’s your favorite to write or read.
Come on; share.
Don’t be shy!

Write directly to me or answer and submit below.

Happy writing until we meet again!
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