The ONE Clue Your Mystery MUST Have
If you're writing a mystery, there's one clue you simply must have: the Damning Clue. In this video, we'll explore 5 ways of writing it.
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This video uses clips from:
Remington Steele
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Murdoch Mysteries
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Haha the parrot as a witness thing might be more common than u think! There’s definitely at least one Ace Attorney case that features a parrot
A verbal clue I loved was two simple words " Die. Stop." The case starts when a mother and father return home they hear screaming. They find one of their sons sitting atop the other screaming " Die Stop!" Repeatedly as he continued to beat his brothers corpse. Now the son who was yelling and is thought to be the killer has Autism and therefore trouble with communication. The sleuth investigates and finds that the dead son had unalived himself. His brother tore him down from the ceiling and began to scream "Die stop!" Because he had seen his brother trying to do this before and knew he was trying to unalive himself so this screaming proves that he couldn't have killed him. Because he wanted his brothers attempted unalivement to stop. It was a sad case but the eureka moment was amazing.
Watching this whole channel tomorrow
Underrated KZreadr your literally the best writing channel never stop waht your doing ❤
There is a brilliant use of a "damning clue" in Poirot's FIVE LITTLE PIGS, which seems to prove someone's guilt when it in fact proves their innocence and points like a huge neon sign directly at the real killer.
Not you referencing Remington Steele! Im even more excited now to have found and subscribed to your channel!
This video was very helpful for my Vampire game, thanks.
Your videos are incredibly helpful, binged a lot of them now, thank you! I am writing a visual novel with a murder mystery, but even though it's not a
You should check out the Ace Attorney series. I think you'll really like it.
Amazing analysis as usual!
Thanks for this
❤ Remington Steele. Have you seen Miss Scarlet and the Duke yet?
Loved this video, Jane! 😊 So interesting as usual! 😊 My damning clue actually occurs with the sleuth unprepared and completely blindsided. 😁 I wonder if that's all that common?
AMAZING video! I always struggle with the damning clue so this is very helpful. And Murdoch Mysteries rocks!! 😊
Excellent explanation and examples, Jane. Thanks! (This is Priscilla, by the way. I finally figured out how to leave KZread comments under my pen name.)
It's been a full quarter since this last video. Do we need to solve the mystery of Why Jane Stopped Posting? Love you vids! Very helpful!
Another good one 👍👍😊
Jane, how do you feel about the "eureka moment" in mysteries, where the detective solves the case based on an event or comment that's not relevant to the case but lets them recontextualize the evidence?
Good Lord, how much of “Knives Out” was not borrowed?
I dont know if you have seen it but I recommend the movie "The Pale blue eye" no spoilers just know its really good