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[But Also Mysteries In General] I'm cautiously putting together some Golden Age mysteries I want to read since I want to give mystery-writing a crack of my own at some point, and I get the feeling as I construct it that I'm going to have a deeply weird experience.
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Umineko is a lot of things, but one of the things it is foremost is a love letter to murder mysteries.
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It addresses so much of why we write mysteries, the dialogue between author and audience, etc. etc. etc.
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And it creates this, like, picture of what an ideal murder mystery is to the author in the reader's mind.
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(Because while Umineko is a love letter to murder mysteries, I don't think it's a murder mystery in of itself.)
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So then going back and comparing and reading all these old mysteries on their own merits is going to be a wild experience.
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(So far, I'm perusing Carr's catalogue for works I find intriguing in the premise of. Marking down The Hollow Man and Nine Wrong Answers as things that could be my jam and then moving on to other authors after that.)
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(And Then There Were None is an obvious must, I kinda want to read a few choice Doyle stories for history's sake and also to see where the most "pure logic puzzle" stuff comes from.)
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(A selection of Poirot is obvious but I'm not sure where to start with that, frankly.)
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(Also I'd like more, like, obscure authors that you all think should get more attention, not just from the Golden Age.)
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(Pinging Niamh Vibes since she might have some insights here.)
Niamh Vibes
I think a great pick would be Thus Wad Adonis Murdered, the first of the Hilary Tamar series
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Which is about the laziest detective ever who's pronouns are "none of your business"
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Notes down.
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I genuinely find mysteries really fascinating and I want to, like.
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Flex those muscles a little bit and learn more about the actual foundational stuff instead of diving into the deep end with just my knowledge of stuff that was made as a response to mysteries, typically.
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(Not just Umineko, stuff like Ace Attorney, even fucking Kamen Rider W.)
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Also I want to get back into reading actual physical books.
Niamh Vibes
Hmmmm
Niamh Vibes
I think out of Agatha Christie then, I'd rec...
Niamh Vibes
Poirot:
- Murder on the Orient Express, although that one might be too famous
- The ABC Murders
- Death on the Nile
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I actually watched the ABC Murders with someone as part of the Poirot series, ha. Really well done, I enjoyed it.
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I'll probably grab Death on the Nile.
Niamh Vibes
Miss Marple:
- basically any of it
Niamh Vibes
Miss Marple has maybe the most interesting start to a detective franchise
Niamh Vibes
She starts in The Thirteen Problems, which features two different dinner parties where people tell strange mysteries they've seen in their lives
Niamh Vibes
Miss Marple, as a guest, immediately starts solving those cases from those stories
Niamh Vibes
With the final short story being Marple catching onto a real, present murder that's just occurred and kickstarting her detective career properly
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huh
Niamh Vibes
So if you're looking into mystery construction, that sort of like
Niamh Vibes
second-hand retelling of a mystery could be useful
Niamh Vibes
There's one mystery in those short stories that has one of my favorite twists in mysteries tbh
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I'm interested in any good mystery picks you find
Love Snake Kaja
I love Agatha Christie but I'd like to see other good mystery stuff out there
Love Snake Kaja
Marple is definitely my favorite of the detectives she wrote
Love Snake Kaja
Like, there are some really good individual Poirot stories but Marple is a more pleasant person to spend time with
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if you can handle Christianity as a big thing, the Brother Cadfael series by Ellis Peters is a series of murder mysteries that take place in a monastery after one of the Crusades, the main character is a monk who was a former soldier who uses his knowledge of people dying as a soldier to solve murder mysteries
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the fact that forensics hadn't been invented back then means that its unique, but as far as I know all the mysteries are fair
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