 Mystery: August 03, 2005 Issue [#538] |
  Mystery
This week: Edited by: MaryLou  
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Mystery stories are so popular because they fulfill one of humans' deepest instincts - the need to explore, to question, to find out. Humans are incessantly searching for answers to life's greatest mysteries. Since those mysteries are so difficult to unravel, we can find comfort in reading and writing mystery novels and short stories. Thus, our need to discover is satisfied...until the hunger strikes again.
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Since this is my first issue as the new mystery newsletter editor, I wanted to share a little of my background as an avid reader of mystery novels and stories.
I began reading mysteries very young, starting with the Encyclopedia Brown short stories. A couple of years later I graduated to Nancy Drew and when I had consumed all of those, the Hardy Boys although those weren't so good. (They had yucky boys!) 
I was ten or eleven when I ventured into adult mystery novels. My older brother had checked out several Agatha Christie novels from our library and, being extremely bored, I picked one up. I was hooked! I read all the books he'd brought home and begged him to bring me more!
In the 20+ plus years since then, Agatha Christie novels are still the epitome of what mystery novels should be, in my view. I re-read her novels over and over and never get bored by them. Despite the many other mystery novelists I have read, AC will always be the Queen of Crime.
Christie has been highlighted in the mystery newsletter before now, so I won't go into all the reasons why her novels are so popular. I only wanted to share with you all my primary influence and my preference for the style known as "soft-boiled" or "cosy" mysteries.
Excitedly Yours,
MaryLou
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In this issue, I'm spotlighting stories and novels that share elements with Agatha Christie novels. I hope you enjoy and don't forget to rate and review. 
This first one is set in an English village:
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This story contains hidden rooms and old family secrets:
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How about a murder mystery party?
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Tea and meddlesome old ladies! What could be more Christie-ish?
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This short story includes a genre I always love to find mixed with mysteries: Romance.
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Mini Mystery
Practice your deductive abilities; 1000 GPs for the first correct answer.
A Mere Matter of Deduction from Great Book of Whodunit Puzzles
Thomas P. Stanwick, the amateur logician, removed a pile of papers from the extra chair and sat down. His friend Inspector Matthew Walker had just returned to his office from the interrogation room, and Stanwick thought he looked unusually weary.
"I'm glad you dropped by, Tom," said Walker. "We have a difficult case on hand. Several thousand dollars' worth of jewelry was stolen from Hoffman's Jewel Palace yesterday morning. From some clues at the scene and a few handy tips, we have it narrowed down to three suspects: Addington, Burke, and Chatham. We know that at least one of them was involved, and possibly more than one."
"Burke has been suspected in several other cases, hasn't he?" asked Stanwick as he filled his pipe.
"Yes, he has," Walker replied, "but we haven't been able to nail him yet. The other two are small potatoes, so what we really want to know is whether Burke was involved in this one."
"What have you learned about the three of them?"
"Not too much. Addington and Burke were definitely here in the city yesterday. Chatham may not have been. Addington never works alone, and carries a snub-nosed revolver. Chatham always uses an accomplice, and he was seen lurking in the area last week. He also refuses to work with Addington, who he says once set him up."
"Quite a ragamuffin crew!" Stanwick laughed. "Based on what you've said, it's not too hard to deduce whether Burke was involved."
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