 Mystery: June 17, 2015 Issue [#7048] |
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This week: Missing! Edited by: Arakun the twisted raccoon  
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Quote for the week:
I do have a sense, and I've never not had it, of how easily things can vanish.
~Doris Lessing
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In a murder mystery, you have a body and a crime scene. Continued advances in forensic science mean that modern detectives must sift through more clues than ever. In many stories and real life cases, the real mystery might be figuring out which of ten thousand clues is important.
But what if your victim is not dead, but has vanished. In that case, there may be no clues at all. There may be no sign that the victim was taken against his/her will, and there may be no record that the victim ever existed. Or maybe the missing person is not a victim at all, but a criminal who is very good at hiding.
If your victim is missing, several things might have happened. They might have been kidnapped. They may have wanted to disappear for one reason or another, which could be another aspect of the mystery. Or the missing person could turn out to be dead after all. This case would be very hard to solve, especially if the victim had been missing for a long time.
Contrary to what happens in most TV shows and movies, police will accept a missing person's report before a person has been missing 24 hours, but it may be a while before anyone misses someone who was not expected to be somewhere at a certain time. For example, maybe the person is on vacation, so nobody expects him to be back for a couple of weeks. That might give a kidnapper quite a head start.Part of the mystery might be figuring out if the person actually was kidnapped.
An interesting twist might be if the main character is the one who is missing. He would have to figure out where he was, how he got there, and how to get home.
Something to try: Write a mystery in which someone, or something is missing. |
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