01-08-2013, 12:37 PM | #361 |
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This is the e-mail I sent.
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I knew the motive I came up with was incorrect. I even had the thought of bullying go through my head but I didn't listen to my subconscious. Good thing that didn't have to be correct to be entered into the contest. |
01-08-2013, 12:39 PM | #362 |
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Yes, all you needed was the right name to get into the hat for the prize draw. We have had fun reading the entries. Some were longer than one of the story episodes!
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01-08-2013, 12:41 PM | #363 |
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I also suspected Ravenne for a long time but not as the murderer (that would have been a little bit too obvious) but as some kind of helper/robber bride or as the woman men are killing for (gifted but poor boy Alex sees a way to get a little money with insurances to have something to offer to her, no murder of course, no, but a few accidents ). But alas, there was no romance involved in this mystery.
Thanks pooh and all the other moderators who helped, well done! |
01-08-2013, 01:08 PM | #364 |
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I didn't suspect Ravenne, but my fevered, cold addled brain kept picturing her as Magenta from "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", especially when the dinner gong was rang in episode 4...
I can't be the only one who did that...can I??? Last edited by 5thWiggle; 01-08-2013 at 01:11 PM. |
01-08-2013, 01:17 PM | #365 |
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I didn't have that picture of Ravenne in my mind while reading the mystery, but I do now.
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01-08-2013, 01:41 PM | #366 | |
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Clearly I was over-thinking things, and I'm way better at this than I though! Hopefully the wicked fowl will be caught, and brought to justice (at a Mobileread barbecue maybe? With extra spicy sauce!) |
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01-08-2013, 01:53 PM | #367 |
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Dismissed pooh for exactly this reason. I thought pdurrant did it because he was long not mentioned and his corpse was not "obviously" dead, only slimy and green.
Bad luck Waiting for the next mystery: |
01-08-2013, 02:04 PM | #368 |
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Well,I must say I'm disappointed in Pooh. I thought you were a bigger chicken than that! (kidding!!).
Actually, I love to read mysteries, but I am completely hopeless at figuring them out, so I didn't even try. |
01-08-2013, 02:30 PM | #369 |
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I suspected that fowl from the very beginning.
So when will we be serving him for real? Last edited by Dylrob; 01-08-2013 at 02:32 PM. |
01-08-2013, 02:34 PM | #370 | |
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He did seem a little obvious. Though Ravenne was even more so, clearly making her the red herring. Last edited by Dylrob; 01-08-2013 at 02:37 PM. |
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01-08-2013, 03:09 PM | #371 |
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I am quite pleased with myself - I guessed the right murderator and the right motive. There were many points on which I were uncertain, especially about the order in which the culprit killed the mods and what was poisoned and when.
On some points I must have read more from the clues than what were really there, e.g. about the vacuum cleaner and the "belated" arrival of pdurrant, WT Sharpe and pooh to the first crime scene (see my e-mail below). Nevertheless, this is what makes me love mysteries; the clues, the red herrings, the thinking and the guessing. Thanks to all the chickens, moderators and murderators for this wonderful story. Spoiler:
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01-08-2013, 03:14 PM | #372 | |
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As pdurrant said, reading the entries has been great fun.
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01-08-2013, 03:49 PM | #374 |
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