MobileRead Winter Contest: Discussion - Page 12

Agatha Chicken · 01-03-2013, 08:44 PM

Oh my! Have I confused everybody? I tried to create a very simple mystery - so that everyone could win a prize! I mean ... there's only one person left alive in the house, right?

Would an author lie to you?

dakini · 01-03-2013, 08:47 PM

i fully admit, i've read only a handful of mysteries in my life, despite living part of each year in a city where they film a mystery series ...

so i might be too easily confused.

but ... there's one character alive in the house. and five others still alive. so i'm assuming (hoping?) more people get killed off.

dreams · 01-03-2013, 09:00 PM

More get killed off!

How will I ever have any kind of festive holiday if more are killed off!

dakini · 01-03-2013, 09:03 PM

more presents all for you?

or ... more presents for whoever's left ... in case YOU get killed off next!

dreams · 01-03-2013, 09:12 PM

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Originally Posted by dakini

more presents all for you?

Ooooo! I hadn't thought of that.

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or ... more presents for whoever's left ... in case YOU get killed off next!

Never! Who would be so dastardly to even think of killing me!?

poohbear_nc · 01-03-2013, 09:44 PM

How can you speak of presents? Moderators are being savagely removed from existence! By "you know who" ....

Hmmmm ..... I'm starting to think about ....

dakini · 01-03-2013, 10:21 PM

how can i think of presents?

how could the mods think of eating you!

my transgressions are far milder.
now ... back to dreaming of what i'd do with a new ereader if i solve this case .... hmmmm

dreams · 01-03-2013, 10:33 PM

Well, I'd love to think of getting one of those lovely prizes, but it seems like I am too busy trying to stay alive!

DaleDe · 01-04-2013, 01:10 AM

I think the evidence is corpus delicious.

crich70 · 01-04-2013, 01:32 AM

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Originally Posted by DaleDe

I think the evidence is corpus delicious.

Well it was your last meal, so one would hope so.

pdurrant · 01-04-2013, 03:00 AM

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Originally Posted by dakini

well ... no. but you look too good to have been microwaved ... so evenly crispy ...

It was a combo-microwave oven: microwave, fan oven and grill. Ideal for quickly cooking anything perfectly. I think Dylrob recommended the model.

crich70 · 01-04-2013, 07:39 AM

Hmmm. Dreams seems to have gotten the point at last. It seems clear that someone who was believed dead isn't.

Iznogood · 01-04-2013, 07:47 AM

Which is why I asked yesterday about the certainty of identification.

Just to go back to the corpus delicious for a while - I know that corpus delicti is not an actual corpse, but wouldn't the actual corpse and corpus delicti be the same in this case? I mean, how can you prove (beyond all reasonable doubt) that pooh is dead without his body?

PeterT · 01-04-2013, 07:54 AM

Here is the ePub version with chapter 12 added to it.

red_phoenix · 01-04-2013, 08:35 AM

ravenne hasn't been killed yet and she was in the house during the murders...except for the last in which she says she went shopping...but did she really?

Sorry pooh...I also am not totally convinced that the chicken in the microwave/oven was actually you.

And what about Alex and Jellby? Jellby seems very intent on getting rid of all "evidence" and classifying everything as an accident.

Could there be multiple killers?

Lots of questions need answering.

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01-03-2013, 08:44 PM	#166
Agatha Chicken Super Star Crime Writer Posts: 132 Karma: 1108888 Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: MobileRead Device: All of them!	Oh my! Have I confused everybody? I tried to create a very simple mystery - so that everyone could win a prize! I mean ... there's only one person left alive in the house, right? Would an author lie to you?

01-03-2013, 08:47 PM	#167
dakini not "it" Posts: 236 Karma: 1687996 Join Date: Aug 2012 Device: Kindle 7th gen	i fully admit, i've read only a handful of mysteries in my life, despite living part of each year in a city where they film a mystery series ... so i might be too easily confused. but ... there's one character alive in the house. and five others still alive. so i'm assuming (hoping?) more people get killed off.

01-03-2013, 09:00 PM	#168
dreams It's about the umbrella Posts: 25,110 Karma: 56250158 Join Date: Jan 2009 Device: Sony 505\| K Fire \| KK 3G+Wi-Fi \| iPhone 3Gs \|Vista 32-bit Hm Prem w/FF	More get killed off! How will I ever have any kind of festive holiday if more are killed off!

01-03-2013, 09:03 PM	#169
dakini not "it" Posts: 236 Karma: 1687996 Join Date: Aug 2012 Device: Kindle 7th gen	more presents all for you? or ... more presents for whoever's left ... in case YOU get killed off next!

01-03-2013, 09:44 PM	#171
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 64,191 Karma: 135242149 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	How can you speak of presents? Moderators are being savagely removed from existence! By "you know who" .... Hmmmm ..... I'm starting to think about ....

01-03-2013, 10:21 PM	#172
dakini not "it" Posts: 236 Karma: 1687996 Join Date: Aug 2012 Device: Kindle 7th gen	how can i think of presents? how could the mods think of eating you! my transgressions are far milder. now ... back to dreaming of what i'd do with a new ereader if i solve this case .... hmmmm

01-03-2013, 10:33 PM	#173
dreams It's about the umbrella Posts: 25,110 Karma: 56250158 Join Date: Jan 2009 Device: Sony 505\| K Fire \| KK 3G+Wi-Fi \| iPhone 3Gs \|Vista 32-bit Hm Prem w/FF	Well, I'd love to think of getting one of those lovely prizes, but it seems like I am too busy trying to stay alive!

01-04-2013, 01:10 AM	#174
DaleDe Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,470 Karma: 13095790 Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Grass Valley, CA Device: EB 1150, EZ Reader, Literati, iPad 2 & Air 2, iPhone 7	I think the evidence is corpus delicious.

01-04-2013, 07:39 AM	#177
crich70 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,310 Karma: 43993832 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Monroe Wisconsin Device: K3, Kindle Paperwhite, Calibre, and Mobipocket for Pc (netbook)	Hmmm. Dreams seems to have gotten the point at last. It seems clear that someone who was believed dead isn't.

01-04-2013, 07:47 AM	#178
Iznogood Guru Posts: 932 Karma: 15752887 Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Norway Device: Ipad, kindle paperwhite	Which is why I asked yesterday about the certainty of identification. Just to go back to the corpus delicious for a while - I know that corpus delicti is not an actual corpse, but wouldn't the actual corpse and corpus delicti be the same in this case? I mean, how can you prove (beyond all reasonable doubt) that pooh is dead without his body?

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01-04-2013, 08:35 AM	#180
red_phoenix Grand Sorcerer Posts: 18,417 Karma: 445850508 Join Date: Dec 2011 Device: Sony PRS-T1	ravenne hasn't been killed yet and she was in the house during the murders...except for the last in which she says she went shopping...but did she really? Sorry pooh...I also am not totally convinced that the chicken in the microwave/oven was actually you. And what about Alex and Jellby? Jellby seems very intent on getting rid of all "evidence" and classifying everything as an accident. Could there be multiple killers? Lots of questions need answering.