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It takes a bit of learning, but you might consider using CMap Tools instead. Richer maps, with more relationship details, can be made. They're free as well. (Open source.) I also use CMaps for plot...
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- A murder appears to have been committed using one method, which implicates a specific person; however, the murder was actually committed another way, by a third person. - A look-alike is killed about...
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I like the twist in "Witness For the Prosecution" where the sultry vixen wife can provide an alibi for her goody-two-shoes husband... but she won't, because she wants to get rid of him! And that's just...
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The detective suspects the right suspect, but for the wrong reason. When the "fake" motive is discounted they stop suspecting him/her- only to realise later on that they were right about the suspect,...
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The killer is someone they interviewed and commits another murder but with a few differences to the first ones in order to throw off the trail of the investigation. The killer is the detectives...
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I've got a few of these in mine! What about one of the vics actually being in on the whole thing as a 'punishing' the other vic kind of thing?
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Taking the one about the murder "victim" being alive and well. Has anyone mentioned the detective being killed/the killer?
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Yes I have. I am working my way through all her novels and stories that are available (some of her scripts aren't available). Plus, I have all three of Curran's Christie's Notebooks books which are...
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You've been studying well at the feet of Agatha Christie, haven't you?
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I thought today it might be tricky to have a "clue" that is a note written by one character that mentions the name of another character, but then later on reveal that it actually refers to a third,...
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Dorothy Sayers does something pretty clever with time of death in her novel "Have His Carcase." I will say no more!
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I don't have any super twisty twists, but the prime suspect is going to alibi out 2/3 of the way through the novel, forcing a reorganization of priorities. If I didn't require him to be actually...
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I want to meet Babyface, he sounds quite intriguing lol
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*ah should mention the detective is originally framed. Then the detective's son. then the trouble-maker looks to be really guilty by that point.. but it was Babyface all along...
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the big important detective has two assistants. one is a trouble maker who's dating the detective's daughter, even though the detective told him very sternly to clear off, and the other is a blond...
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Screwy family relationships and a not-so-dead guy. Also, the first murder was an accident. Turns out "shooting to wound" is actually not as easy as just aiming for the shoulder.
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the one I'm using: -multiple people believes themselves to be the murderer
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The victim, horribly disfigured, is misidentified by the police. Purported victim returns mid-investigation and leaves police scrambling to uncover clues they missed when they were chasing the wrong lead.
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On top of secret identities there is also the classic TWINS scenario where one character is actually playing their twin. You can do a lot with twins (but... can you do anything with them that hasn't...
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The policeman investigating the crime did it. The narrator did it.
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my character murders his wife because if he cant be the one and only one to love her then she will die (and is pregnant with a child who the husband believes will get more love than he will)
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-Secret identities and impersonation. We think a character is one person but turns out to be another. -The murderer does something to "change" the time of death -The murderer plays "victim" so it...
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I'm going with some really screwy family relationships. I may need to use Visio.
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Who doesn't love a good TWIST?! Here are some that I've thought of, but I want more - more - more!!! Please share all ya got. - Suicide that initially appears to be murder. - Murder that initially...
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