RE: The Body in Mayor Square Mystery - Scholar and Scribe Invitational
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Ahhh. You give us details wrapped in reality and still boggle our minds with the plot of it all. I find it hard writing a good mystery/thriller. You did really well to me
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Thank you ! I think quite often the way I write a mystery is to start with a mental image from something somewhere in the story, or a single idea, and then work out what happened before it that got to that point, and what happens afterwards to get to an answer.
For this one, I started with the idea that the classic locked room mystery might have an opposite, an "open room mystery". So instead of a body in a locked room which can initially only be explained as a suicide with an obvious cause of death (when of course it isn't), what happens if you've got a body in a place where thousands of people could be a suspect or have a motivation, but where the cause of death isn't obvious ?