[ReacTor] Murder, They Wrote!

[James Nicoll]

Murder, They Wrote!

Five Murder Mysteries Featuring SFF Authors and Fans

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[Lynn McGuire]

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Zero for five.

There are MANY murder mysteries in the SFF world. John Varley's
"Irontown Blues" is one of the best. And of course, there is Isaac
Asimov's excellent "The Caves Of Steel".

Lynn

[Garrett Wollman]

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Hey, one that I've actually read!

(MURDER AT THE ABA was in the public library during my period of
reading all the available Asimov -- which, I learned from OPUS 200,
was far from all the books Asimov had published, especially since he
liked to count new editions of old books and new collections of old
stories separately.)

-GAWollman

[Don]

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A Dan Shamble short story seemingly suits the specified subgenre. In
"Role Model: A Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. Adventure" (Anderson) Shamble's
conned (so to speak) into providing CosplayCon security. Soon after
arrival, a supine stormtrooper shows up with a wooden stake protruding
from his chest. And the game's afoot at the Motel Six Feet Under and
Conference Center.

# # #

Edgar Allan Poe proffers primordial police procedural, personified by
Le Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin. Poe's character appears as Science
Fiction's first detective in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," followed
by "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt" and "The Purloined Letter." The last
story pertains to high politics rather than murder.

Doyle follows and characterizes Sherlock Holmes's quirks as a sideshow.
Agatha Christie's Belgian detective Hercule Poirot's own oddities also
appear along the way.

Danke,

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Murder, They Wrote!
Five Murder Mysteries Featuring SFF Authors and Fans

It's not just moving to these towns. You don't want to be visitor
either. So if you're an author invited to do a book signing, or a
celebrity asked to judge a cooking contest, perhaps an actor in an
Indie film on location, check recent events. If there have been an
anomalously high murder rate in a town that ought to have maybe one per
generation, have a conflict that will prevent your appearance.

The Mur Lafferty series that began with Eternity Station, features a
typical "cozy" amateur sleuth. One difference here is that she is not
thrilled by people getting killed around her and solving the mysteries.
It's ruined her life. So she's fled to an alien space station. We
actually get an explanation of why these things happen, and it's not
coincidence.


Brian