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unusual facts about murder mystery



Luvale language

In the Swedish 1997 murder mystery novel "Faceless Killers", Inspector Kurt Wallander investigates a murderous racist attack on a refugee center in Skane and finds it difficult to communicate with a witness who speaks only the Luvale language.

Mulukhiyah

In an episode of the murder mystery yarn Murder She Wrote entitled Death n' Denial, sleuth Jessica Fletcher is coerced into eating a full serving mulukhiyah after posing as the victim's mother in order to suss out a clue.

Tricky slave

In contrast to these positive depictions, the tricky slave is portrayed as the antagonist in another Arabian Nights tale, "The Three Apples", an early example of a murder mystery.


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88 Antop Hill

The film is a murder mystery and is loosely based on James Hadley Chase's novel Tiger By The Tail.

Alex Ferns

His theatrical work includes the role of the "tapeworm" (a hallucination) in I.D., a play about Dimitri Tsafendas and his assassination of South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the 2008 national tour of Agatha Christie's murder mystery And Then There Were None, and Little Shop of Horrors as the Dentist.

Alma Bridwell White

Alma White, the Pillar of Fire, and their association with the Klan are dramatized in Libba Bray's New York Times best-selling 2012 murder mystery The Diviners, in a chapter titled "The Good Citizen." The Diviners is being made into a feature film by Paramount Pictures.

Bill Camfield

The character acquired legendary status in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and is fondly remembered by his many now grown-up fans, including actor/director Bill Paxton (who used “Slam-Bang Theatre” footage in his film Frailty, a murder mystery set in 1960s Fort Worth) and underground comics artists Mack White and Gary Panter (both of whom mention Icky Twerp on their websites).

Body farm

Authors Jon Jefferson and Bill Bass have published a number of fictional murder mystery novels based on the body farm at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville under the pseudonym Jefferson Bass.

Crossroads to Crime

Having been impressed by his performance in a West End production of the Agatha Christie murder mystery The Mousetrap, Anderson cast actor Anthony Oliver in the leading role of Police Constable Don Ross.

Denmark, Tennessee

Two mystery novels take place in part in a fictional version of Denmark: Such Vicious Minds: A Murder Mystery Featuring Elvis Presley by Daniel Klein; and Something Rotten by Alan Gratz.

Deryn Rees-Jones

She has published three poetry books with Seren, The Memory Tray (1994), which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection; Signs Round a Dead Body (1998), a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation; and Quiver: A Murder Mystery (2004).

Gaylord Larsen

He is well known for his fictional murder mystery Dorothy and Agatha, incorporating the well-known mystery novelists Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie as title characters, where Sayers must solve a crime when a man is murdered in her dining room.

Jeanne Fleming

For example, the Opening Parade Event for the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival and a series of Special Weekends for the Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz, NY that included many original ideas including a Murder Mystery Weekend with Edward Gorey and Isaac Asimov; a Chamber Music Weekend; Explore the Tiny (Small is Beautiful); Star Parties with Carl Sagan; a Chocolate Lover’s event and many more that continue to be featured events at the Mountain House to this day.

Jeffrey Round

His second novel, The P-Town Murders: A Bradford Fairfax Murder Mystery, was published in 2007 by Haworth Press, and was republished in 2008 by Cormorant Books in Canada.

Jerry McDaniel

In the late 1960s, McDaniel designed and illustrated the complete Zane Grey Western Series for Simon & Schuster, and also created book covers for the S. S. Van Dine "Murder Mystery" series for three different publishers, including Charles Scribner's Sons’s over a ten-year period.

Louis Bayard

His next novel, The Pale Blue Eye, is a murder mystery set at West Point in 1830, where the young Edgar Allan Poe was a cadet.

Manly Palmer Hall

He appears in the introduction to the 1938 film When Were You Born, a murder mystery that uses astrology as a key plot point.

Marcus Artorius Bato

An insightful look at Bato appears in Death by Vespasian, in which Bato narrates a letter to the Emperor Titus, and tells the story of a certain murder mystery that he solved (although the true hero is apparently Flavia).

Margaret Markov

She also appeared in the dark sex comedy/murder mystery Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971) with Rock Hudson, directed by Roger Vadim.

Pádraig Ó Siadhail

Among his works are the murder mystery Peaca an tSinsir (1996), a collection of short stories under the title Seacht gCineál Meisce agus Finscéalta Eile (2001), a historical novel entitled Beirt Bhan Mhisniúla (2011), a biography of Piaras Béaslaí, Irish nationalist and writer, and a collection of essay about Canada, Idir Dhá Thír: Sceitsí ó Cheanada (2005).

Pat Bottrill

She was awarded the MBE in the 1997 New Year Honours list for services to nursing and health care, and was awarded an RCN Award of Merit in 1995, and was Chair of RCN Council until August 2002 when she was pressured to resign after making a purportedly "inappropriate and offensive" remark at a meeting when she used the term "10 Little Niggers", the original title of Agatha Christie's very atypical murder mystery, And Then There Were None.

Penelope Fitzgerald

Later in 1977 she published her first novel, The Golden Child, a comic murder mystery with a museum setting inspired by the Tutankhamun mania earlier in the 1970s.

Shear Madness

Marilyn Abrams & Bruce Jordan acquired rights for a murder mystery originally titled Scherenschnitt, written by German playwright Paul Pörtner (1925–1984), and made it into Shear Madness.

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

Wealthy murder mystery writer Paula Bradford (Jean Arthur) returns from her worldwide travels to see her former husband, surgeon Dr. Lawrence "Brad" Bradford (William Powell).

The French Key

The French Key is a 1946 murder mystery film directed by Walter Colmes, written by Frank Gruber from his novel, and starring Albert Dekker, Mike Mazurki and Evelyn Ankers.

The Ring and the Book

After Browning's death, a cache of documents relating to the case almost twice the size of the Yellow Book was found in an Italian library in the 1920s; the true story of the murder is told in Derek Parker, 'Roman Murder Mystery', London, Sutton, 2001.

Thrones, Dominations

Thrones, Dominations is a Lord Peter Wimsey murder mystery novel that Dorothy L. Sayers began writing but abandoned, and which remained as fragments and notes at her death.

Ustaoset

The mountain resort cabins at Ustaoset have a key role in the murder mystery unfolding in the Norwegian detective thriller "The Leopard" by the Norwegian author Jo Nesbø.

William J. Mann

Forthcoming work includes Tinseltown: Madness, Morphine and Murder at the Dawn of the Movies, due in 2014 from HarperCollins, the story of how the Hollywood studio system and the Hays Office were established during the early 1920s, told alongside the famous, unsolved murder mystery of director William Desmond Taylor, which Mann promises to solve.

Wolf in the Fold

Eugene Myers also "liked the idea of a classic murder mystery with Star Trek characters, complete with a locked room murder where the lights go out and someone screams".

Women's Murder Club

Women’s Murder Club is a murder mystery franchise by the author James Patterson.