October Murder Mystery
Malky’s Shakespearean Challenge
A Photo Journal of the Crime Scene Most Horrific
From Malky’s Post: You are writing a murder mystery, and your detective is called to a murder scene that depicts an emotionless, unregretful malignity. How do you write that into your novel without using words first cited by Shakespeare?
This challenge would best be answered by Ted van Griethuysen, the only one on this prestigious writing platform with the proper credentials and life-long knowledge of the Bard.
Until there is or is not an answer from Ted, it’s fallen on Detective Lucy Furr to investigate. She is up to the task. Having read not once, but twice, “The Nose Knows: A Bugle Boy Crime Caper” by Steve Day, aka, DeForest Day.
I, her partner in crime . . er, in solving crimes, educated in So Cal, read little of Shakespeare. For inspiration, I go first to Robin Williams.
And now to the great outdoors to investigate the horrendous event horizon at which Lucy did bark in the night. Across the street of slings and arrows, we did walk and into the field of dreams.
Scene of the ghastly crime: The town hall for the Deluded Custodians meeting of June 2023. Someone with a very small head (brain to match) takes pictures while Lucy waits patiently.
Retracing her steps, Lucy Furr takes a second look.
Empty bleachers, a vulture-less backstop, a hole dug in the infield in the muddy Georgia Clay. [not her real name.] Madame Georgia of “Georgia’s Elite”, a brothel sex miles due east. Is she a suspect? Why? Why not?
“A Closer Look” with Seth Meyers, reveals the struggle, so many skeletal remains, it will take Abby months to piece it all together.
But Lucy Furr knows instinctively the hell hound who perpetrated the crime of the century, to be known forever more as “The Calzoncillos Conundrum”.
It’s Ziggy of the Black Tongue Clan. He’s escaped justice yet again.
“I know where to find him.”
“Seriously, Lucy, I just had a shower.”
“Washing away the evidence of your dirty deeds, no doubt.”
