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A murder mystery film set in a medieval village. After an outbreak of plague, the villagers make the decision to shut their borders so as to protect the disease from spreading (see the real life case of the village of Eyam). As the disease decimates the population, however, some bodies start showing up that very obviously were not killed by plague.
Since nobody has been in or out since the outbreak began, the killer has to be somebody in the local community.
The village constable (who is essentially just Some Guy, because being a medieval constable was a bit like getting jury duty, if jury duty gave you the power to arrest people) struggles to investigate the crime without exposing himself to the disease, and to maintain order as the plague-stricken villagers begin to turn on each other.
The killer strikes repeatedly, seemingly taking advantage of the empty streets and forced isolation to strike without witnesses. As with any other murder mystery, the audience is given exactly the same information to solve the crime as the detective.
Except, that is, whenever another character is killed, at which point we cut to the present day where said character's remains are being carefully examined by a team of modern archaeologists and historians who are also trying to figure out why so many of the people in this plague-pit died from blunt force trauma.
The archaeologists and historians, btw, are real experts who haven't been allowed to read the script. The filmmakers just give them a model of the victim's remains, along with some artefacts, and they have to treat it like a real case and give their real opinion on how they think this person died.
We then cut back to the past, where the constable is trying to do the same thing. Unlike the archaeologists, he doesn't have the advantage of modern tech and medical knowledge to examine the body, but he does have a more complete crime scene (since certain clues obviously wouldn't survive to be dug up in the modern day) and personal knowledge from having probably known the victim.
The audience then gets a more complete picture than either group, and an insight into both the strengths and limits of modern archaeology, explaining what we can and can't learn from studying a person's remains.
At the end of the film, after the killer is revealed and the main plot is resolved, we then get to see the archaeologists get shown the actual scenes where their 'victims' were killed, so they can see how well their conclusions match up with what 'really' happened.
#film ideas#plotbunny#murder mystery#detective stories#period dramas#middle ages#history#archaeology
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The Kate Middleton mysteries, as channelled by Emery Robin (from here):
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#Conversations I Have Had With Edgar Allan Poe#Edgar Allan Poe#literature#writers#writer#author#authors#books#poetry#poems#detective stories#Murders in the Rue Morgue#apes#monkeys#orangutans#Oh Edgar#we feel your pain
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CREEP-N-JAX (Dark), JUMP-N-JAX (Dark/Fighting) & RIP-R-JAX (Dark/Steel) The Creeps pokemon
This misterious shadowy figures inhabit the dark alleys and lonely corners of large cities.
CREEP-N-JAX is based on the misterious shadowy figures with hats and trenchcoats popular in Noir detective stories, they can be seen creeping on the back of alleways, often peeking round the corners looking for lonesome passerbys to steal from, but sometimes they form small gangs and start working as a single unit.
When 2 CREEP-N-JAX start working together they will evolve into JUMP-N-JAX.
This pokemon uses its spring-like legs and long cape to swifty jump and glide trough the rooftops, looking for unsuspecting and lonely victims to attack by surprise from above, taking whatever they need and then leaving with a powerful jump, disappearing as fast as they appeared.
JUMP-N-JAX is based on Spring-Heeled Jack, a misterious figure from Victorian London who became popular due to the penny dreadful stories written around it
When 3 CREEP-N-JAX start working together they will evolve into RIP-R-JAX.
This terrifying pokemon moves swiftly through the darkness despite of its size, attacking by suprise from the shadows. Their hands are armed with long sharp blades used to intimidate its victim, demanding they surrender their belongings or risk being harmed. People blame this pokemon for many cases of missing people.
RIP-R-JAX is based on Jack the Ripper, another victorian figure, one of the most famous serial killers, thanks mostly to its presence in popular media.
#pokemon#fakemon#fake pokemon#dark pokemon#dark fakemon#dark type#steel type#steel pokemon#steel fakemon#fighting type#fighting pokemon#fighting fakemon#jack the ripper#spring heeled jack#shadow figure#misteryous stranger#shadow man#noir#detective stories#mistery#unsolved mistery#serial killer
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re-reading the Sherlock Holmes series and holy shit, these two are so gay...
#sherlock holmes#john watson#sherlock x john#gayyyy#books#detective stories#sir arthur conan doyle#johnlock
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Catching the Thief, Detective Yearbook magazine cover, 1949
Peter Driben
#Tom Lovell#american art#modern art#art#painting#portrait#illustration#20th century#art history#fashion#pulp fiction#vintage#magazine#americana#1940s#detective stories#pin up
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THE LITTLE TALES OF SMETHERS AND OTHER STORIES by Lord Dunsany (London: Jarrolds, 1952) Dust jacket design by Val Biro.
Twenty-six mystery and detective stories, including the much-anthologized “The Two Bottles of Relish”, with its neat and devastating one-sentence solution at the end.
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#book blog#books#books books books#book cover#mystery#lord dunsany#val biro#detective stories#book design
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Deadloch - Episode 8
created by Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan
Blackram Hall: whodunit, murder mystery, hardboiled, pulp, crime, thriller, italian giallo, noir and neo-noir, detectives and serial killers, spy stories, vintage, manor houses, art, life and death.
Avatar pic by Mitchell Turek
#Deadloch#murder mystery#detective stories#crime mystery#black comedy#Kate McCartney#Kate McLennan#Kate Box#Dulcie Collins#Madeleine Sami#Eddie Redcliffe#Alicia Gardiner#Nina Oyama#Tom Ballard#Ben Chessell
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Crooks of the Waldorf by Horace Smith. London: John Long, 1930. Dust jacket illustrator unknown. The book recounts "the escapades of Joe Smith (no relation to the author), the house detective at the original Waldorf Astoria on 34th Street and Fifth Avenue (now the site of the Empire State Building.)"
Below is an excerpt from the book. It can be read online here, but can't be downloaded as anything other than a JPG.
Top photo: Stuff Nobody Cares About
Bottom screenshot: University of Michigan
#vintage New York#1930s#mysteries#Crooks of the Waldorf#Horace Smith#books#detective stories#Golden Age Detection#GAD
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#Will Elder#comics#comic trip#detective stories#art#artwork#painting#illustration#detective#decapitated
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5-Detective Mysteries
Three issue pulp series from 1942 and 1943
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Dr Doolittle-style show about a detective who can talk to animals, except instead of talking like people the animals still talk like animals, just translated into English sentences, so the plot of most episodes centres around trying to figure out what the star witness testimony actually means.
Victim's murder was witnessed by her pet snake, whose tank was in the room. Unfortunately pet snake is incapable of describing the world around them except in terms of 'rocks' and 'meat', with their descriptions of individual forms of 'meat' focusing almost entirely on body temperature and smell.
(Solved when it turns out that their description of 'warm-cold meat with rock' was actually an attempt to describe a suspect with a prosthetic limb, which is pretty unnoticeable to a human, but looks dramatically different in infrared.)
Murder at a honey farm. Each witness managed to see about ~0.06% of the full crime, in order to get the full picture, you have to get them to swarm.
Victim was found several days after death, already crawling with maggots. Days into the investigation, protag begins a frantic search to find any surviving maggots/flies that were on the corpse, after realising that how the victim tasted would give vital information about the poison used.
Also there's at least one or two animals who actually do talk in full sentences and in terms humans can understand, and the reason behind this is never fully explained.
All cats in this universe talk in terms of 'mine/not-mine' and mainly focus on territory, mates and food, with the one exception of the main character's cat who is named Watson and knows how to use sarcasm.
All insects speak in one word sentences where everything is 'food', 'enemy' or (for hive insects) 'friend' and 'queen', with the exception of seven-spotted ladybirds specifically, who for some reason speak in full English sentences and are up to date and knowledgeable about world events. The protagonists is as concerned by the full implications of this as you are.
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Just a cold day on the beach in Ontario. Do you like books set in virtual reality? If yes, then here is one such book.
#books#booklr#bookblogger#book photography#ya books#books outside#traveling reader#mystery books#ya mystery#murder mysteries#detective stories#north bay#ontario canada#lets play murder#kesia lupo
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#Five Little-Known Sherlock Holmes Cases#Sherlock Holmes#Sir Arthur Conan Doyle#literature#detective#detectives#detective stories
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ARCHER: DREAMLAND S08E08, "Auflösung"
#archer#archer: dreamland#archer season 8#sterling archer#lana kane#len trexler#mother#algernop krieger#charlotte van der tunt#cyril figgis#sergeant poovey#barry dillon#noir in color#1940s#animated tv series#detective stories
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Hot take- Detectives being creative and quirky is necessary for them to solve mysteries. They have to think outside the box, and that by definition is not thinking like everyone else. You have to love a good mystery to even want to solve it. That's why I really, really don't like it when "detectives" solve "mysteries" in order to like..... avenge their long lost kin or deliver justice. Like, sure you can do that, but first you have to want to actually solve the mystery because it is a mystery and you love mysteries.
Also, the only variation I accept is that you have the detective hate a mystery so much that they literally cannot sit still unless they have solved it. Bonus points if they are just being meddlesome in something no one had consulted them on, and are in fact poking their nose where it does not belong.
#detectives#detective stories#sherlock holmes#miss marple#jane marple#hercule poirot#benoit blanc#noir detective#hot take#or not?#is this really the first thing i am going to post here?#yes#yes it is#pleased to meet you fellow human
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