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The Perfect Crime [Thursday, Period Five]
"Afternoon kids," Rick said, passing a sheaf of notes around the room. "Today we'll be taking a quick look at the locked room mystery. Which is where a crime, usually a murder, has been commited, but the crime scene is such that it appears impossible for it actually to have taken place. Often this involves the murderer seeming to have vanished into thin air."
"While this doesn't fall under the heading of a perfect crime, since in order to have a locked room mystery, you need to know about a crime, but they are usually incredibly hard to solve, as you can see by the real life examples sometimes they're never solved, and often the resolution involves things being not quite as they appear on the surface."
He paused before continuing. "Now, we're going to read an example of a locked room mystery, Edgar Allen Poe's The Morgue Street Murders, which is commonly considered one of the first instances of the detective story and the locked room mystery in the English language," Rick said, then grimaced. "And, much as it pains me to say this of Poe, it may also be considered an early example of the ass-pull in detective fiction, as I doubt the stated solution would have occurred to the average reader from the clues given in the story. In any case, let's all just have a read through and discuss what you think of the mystery."
"Also, anyone who declares in subsequent classes that 'a monkey did it' will be lowering their final grade, not least because the noble orangutan is an ape."
[OOC: OCD up.]
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"While this doesn't fall under the heading of a perfect crime, since in order to have a locked room mystery, you need to know about a crime, but they are usually incredibly hard to solve, as you can see by the real life examples sometimes they're never solved, and often the resolution involves things being not quite as they appear on the surface."
He paused before continuing. "Now, we're going to read an example of a locked room mystery, Edgar Allen Poe's The Morgue Street Murders, which is commonly considered one of the first instances of the detective story and the locked room mystery in the English language," Rick said, then grimaced. "And, much as it pains me to say this of Poe, it may also be considered an early example of the ass-pull in detective fiction, as I doubt the stated solution would have occurred to the average reader from the clues given in the story. In any case, let's all just have a read through and discuss what you think of the mystery."
"Also, anyone who declares in subsequent classes that 'a monkey did it' will be lowering their final grade, not least because the noble orangutan is an ape."
[OOC: OCD up.]
[Class Roster|Previous Classes]
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Listen to the Lecture - PC [Week 03]
Read and Discuss the Story - PC [Week 3]
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And if anyone knew from nonsense ...
Talk to Rick - PC [Week 03]
Talk to the TA - PC [Week 03]
OOC - PC [Week 03]
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This is not a bad thing. *hums*