The ONE Thing You Need to Know to Write Mysteries
There's one huge principle of mystery writing that Parks and Rec gets PERFECT! Let's talk about it.
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This video uses clips from:
Parks and Recreation
Murder She Wrote
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It's so amazing how you're able to craft entire how to murder mystery videos based on subplots from shows that arent even murder mysteries... EPIC.
In a book I read by Agatha Christie called “An Unexpected Guest” has this man, Micheal Starkwedder’s car breaks down and finds a body in this house and there’s a ton of family members in said house who could’ve done it but near the end, it is revealed Micheal is infact a man named MacGregor whose child the victim ran over and is also the murderer, avenging his dead child
What great timing! I was just trying to decide whether or not doing this was cheating. Great, then I have my hidden culprit.
Jessica Fletcher. 🕵️♀️ i'm still in mourning
I'm binging this channel right now! I love how everything just makes sense. The more I read and watch, the more I can connect the two. I really love the simple explanations that can be applied to so many things. Not only does it help my writing have so much more depth, but comparing all the writing strategies you talked about and matching them up with things shown in movies, shows, and books is becoming as fun as the content. Keep up the amazing work!! These are so insightful and well-explained!!
Great info thank you!
Pefectly illustrated in Agatha Christie's "3 Blind Mice"
Great video, Jane! This is a concept we see constantly but don't really think about. It reminds me of the Miss Marple "
I love this idea of drawing circles around suspects to fool the reader!
Like other said: a positive pregnancy test could be from a male with prostate cancer. Not a funny turning point but an interesting one.
Just a fun note off the example for a serious, a positive pregnancy test can also be a sign of kidney disease or certain cancers 🤔
I do want to point something out, at
Jane, is 14 suspects too many? Should I kill off one or more of the suspects? I feel like having 14 suspects may have come down to me having overcompensated for fear of having too few suspects.
Interesting fact: a man can test positive on a pregnancy test, if he has testicular cancer.