#mysterybook

[victoriagleasuredesigns]

It isn’t Fall without a good mystery! 📖🔎 You can learn to logically follow the clues with Murdle by G.T. Karber.

Today’s @owlcrate @OCthenest @words.and.whimsy Take to the Skies photo challenge is Cogs and Rivets: A book with a puzzle to solve.

Solve the mystery with a quilt, in the library, with a good book. Found in our Etsy shop at VictoriaGDesigns or www.victoriagleasuredesigns.com❤️

[jimfostercoc]

Kate Atkinson, author of "One Good Turn," talks about how everything is connected in the world as illustrated in the book when all the main characters meet as bystanders to a crime of road rage.  The full interview from a 2006 episode of "Conversations On The Coast with Jim Foster" can be heard now wherever you get your podcasts. 

[lilactyme]

What are you in the mood for?

Turn the 🔉 UP

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[nealenrick]

#webcomics#comicstrip#comics

[kitabayduakan]

Mystery and Crime Books for Thriller and Suspense Lovers - Kitabay

Find the perfect read for fans of suspense and intrigue. Shop now for the latest bestsellers and discover new crime authors. Join our mystery book club and get recommendations and reviews.

[sistahscifi]

Join us April 12th as Veronica G Henry joins Sistah Scifi Wine Down Wednesday to discuss the Mambo Reina series!! Swipe left to get a sneak peek of THE QUARTER STORM, the first book in the series. Also, purchase link in bio: @sistahscifi | www.sistahscifi.com | https://sistahscifi.com/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage&q=Mambo+reina. Better yet, check it out from yiu favorite #library! Today we are highlighting the NOLA Public Library @NOLALibrary! Reposted @thewordslinger THE FOREIGN EXCHANGE: Mambo Reina solved The French Quarter Murder. Now she must solve track another killer to uncover a mystery that reaches further than she can imagine. #veronicaghenry #thequarterstorm #theforeignexchange #mysterybook #supportblackauthors #blackauthorsmatter #blackreaders #readwithus #blackbibliophile #fantasybooks #womenwhoread #writersofinstagram #authorsofinstagram #bookstagram #booklover #readersofinstagram #sistahscifi #mamboreinaseries (at Sistah Scifi) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp-XxSyrprH/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[prototypeofgod]

[SPOILER ALERT] After the Last Page of Salvation of a Saint (Keigo Higashino)

Seorang lelaki ditemukan tewas di rumahnya akibat kopi beracun. Istrinya memiliki motif kuat sebagai tersangka setelah dia dicampakkan oleh sang suami. Masalahnya, pada hari pembunuhan, wanita itu berada ribuan kilometer dari tempat kejadian. Detektif Kusanagi dan Detektif Utsumi Kaoru yang menyelidiki kasus ini memiliki opini bertentangan soal siapa pelakunya. Namun, Utsumi merasa Kusanagi terlalu berempati terhadap istri korban dan itu membuat penilaiannya kabur.

Karena itu, Utsumi meminta Profesor Manabu Yukawa untuk membantu kepolisian, sekaligus meluruskan logika Kusanagi. Tapi bahkan ilmuwan genius yang dijuluki Detektif Galileo itu kebingungan. Tidak mungkin seseorang memasukkan racun ke kopi dari jarak jauh, bukan? Di sinilah kecerdasan sang professor diuji. Dia harus menguak trik bagaimana racun itu muncul pada waktu yang tepat, di tempat yang sempurna, dan yang terpenting, tidak salah sasaran.

Salvation of a Saint adalah novel misteri karangan Keigo Higashino yang dikategorikan ke dalam serial Detektif Galileo bersama tiga judul lainnya: The Devotion of Suspect X, A Midsummer’s Equation, dan Silent Parade. Sebagaimana cerita misteri Higashino yang lain, Salvation of a Saint (diterjemahkan: Dosa Malaikat) tidak mengelak adanya kasus pembunuhan. Peristiwa kali ini menimpa Yoshitaka, pria dewasa yang ditemukan tewas akibat menenggak kopi bercampur arsenik di rumahnya. Ada beberapa alasan yang lantas membuat saya perlu mengulas novel ini tidak pada garis besarnya saja. Dalam kalimat lain, saya ingin berterus terang tentang seluruh kejadian di balik kematian Yoshitaka berdasarkan apa yang ditulis pada blurb.

1. Istrinya memiliki motif kuat sebagai tersangka setelah dia dicampakkan oleh sang suami. Masalahnya, pada hari pembunuhan, wanita itu berada ribuan kilometer dari tempat kejadian. Setelah membaca bahkan hanya sampai pada sepuluh halaman pertama, kita sudah bisa tahu bahwa Ayane, istri mendiang, adalah satu-satunya orang yang jelas akan melakukan pembunuhan kepada suaminya menggunakan bubuk putih yang ia simpan di meja rias. Kejahatan itu dilakukannya sebab Yoshitaka terang-terangan akan meninggalkan Ayane di masa mendatang karena ia tidak bisa menghasilkan keturunan. Kendati pada halaman-halaman berikutnya detektif justru mencecar Wakayama Hiromi (murid Ayane di suatu kelas kerajinan kain perca sekaligus selingkuhan muda mendiang Yoshitaka) dengan banyak sekali pertanyaan, Kusanagi dan Utsumi selalu beralasan bahwasanya hal tersebut sudah lumrah sebagai prosedur Kepolisian Metropolitan. Barangkali Hiromi yang saat itu tengah mengandung putra mendiang tidak perlu tersiksa fisik dan mentalnya jika saja dirinya bukan orang pertama yang menemukan jasad Yoshitaka di ruang keluarga–sementara Ayane, si ibu tuan rumah, sedang berada di Sapparo ketika malam kejadian.

2. Detektif Kusanagi dan Detektif Utsumi Kaoru yang menyelidiki kasus ini memiliki opini bertentangan soal siapa pelakunya. Namun, Utsumi merasa Kusanagi terlalu berempati terhadap istri korban dan itu membuat penilaiannya kabur. Oke, mungkin akan terdengar lebih klise jika diungkapkan dengan kata-kata bahwa Kusanagi justru jatuh cinta kepada Ayane, tersangka utama kasus yang tengah diusutnya. Kenyataan tersebut membuatnya sering berdebat dengan Utsumi dengan mempertahankan alibi kuat Ayane bahwa wanita yang baru saja ditinggal suaminya itu sedang berada di Sapporo ketika Yoshitaka ditemukan meninggal di Tokyo. Kusanagi lantas berangkat mendatangi kota tersebut untuk kemudian kembali tanpa sesuatu yang memantik kecurigaan lain. Oleh sebab itulah, detektif yang sedang kasmaran-kasmaran-nya itu berpikir ada seseorang lain yang hanya diketahui oleh Yoshitaka menyusup ke dalam rumah pada malam kejadian. Rupanya alibi Kusanagi bukan hanya angin lalu yang ia utarakan atas dorongan kuat untuk melindungi Ayane sebab ia lantas menemukan seseorang di masa lalu Yoshitaka. Adalah Tsukui Junko, wanita muda yang rupanya telah tewas bertahun silam akibat bunuh diri, dan tahukah kau bahwa hidup Junko juga berakhir akibat arsenik yang sama persis dengan racun yang ditemukan Forensik pada kopi Yoshitaka. Belakangan diketahui pula bahwa Junko adalah teman dekat Ayane di masa lalu. Lantas, bagaimana Ayane menuang arsenik di kopi Yoshitaka dari lokasi sejauh ribuan kilometer?

3. Karena itu, Utsumi meminta Profesor Manabu Yukawa untuk membantu kepolisian, sekaligus meluruskan logika Kusanagi. Tapi bahkan ilmuwan genius yang dijuluki Detektif Galileo itu kebingungan. Tidak mungkin seseorang memasukkan racun ke kopi dari jarak jauh, bukan? Di sinilah kecerdasan sang professor diuji. Dia harus menguak trik bagaimana racun itu muncul pada waktu yang tepat, di tempat yang sempurna, dan yang terpenting, tidak salah sasaran. Karena merasa pendapatnya selalu bertentangan dengan Kusanagi, Utsumi mendatangi Yukawa, seorang dosen fisika di suatu universitas yang dijuluki sebagai Detektif Galileo karena kebrilianannya. Yukawa mencoba membuktikan beberapa hipotesisnya tentang bagaimana racun itu dimasukkan yang lantas berakhir sia-sia. Ia menyebut kasus Yoshitaka sebagai kejahatan sempurna. Kemudian ia berasumsi tentang solusi bilangan imajiner:

“Artinya adalah sesuatu yang bisa dibayangkan secara teori, tapi dalam kenyataan tidak bisa diwujudkan. Hanya ada satu cara bagaimana seorang istri yang sedang berada di Hokkaido bisa membuat suaminya yang berada di Tokyo meminum racun, tapi kemungkinan untuk melakukan kejahatan tersebut boleh dibilang nyaris nol. Paham? Mungkin ada trik tertentu untuk melakukannya, tapi mustahil diwujudkan.”

Maksudnya, Ayane tentu memiliki cara paling genius sekaligus hati-hati untuk membuat rencana pembunuhan yang begitu rumit dan mustahil terealisasikan di luar bayangan manusia. Berita buruknya, Ayane justru berhasil menjalankan rencana tersebut. Sementara berita baiknya: Utsumi, Yukawa, dan Kusanagi pun sukses memperkirakan bagaimana rencana itu berjalan. Kira-kira begini;

4. di awal pernikahan, Yoshitaka dan Ayane membuat sebuah kesepakatan untuk saling meninggalkan satu tahun dari sekarang apabila Ayane tidak bisa memberinya keturunan. Junko, mantan kekasih Yoshitaka melakukan bunuh diri tentu bukan tanpa sebab. Wanita itu jelas tidak bisa mengandung sehingga Yoshitaka meninggalkannya untuk menikahi Ayane. Sebelum mengakhiri hidup, Junko menulis surat terakhir untuk Ayane yang disertai dengan bubuk arsenik dalam plastik. Ayane serta-merta paham tentang apa yang didapatkannya dari Junko. Wanita malang itu ingin Ayane membalaskan dendam untuk membunuh Yoshitaka sebab keduanya sama-sama tahu bahwa Ayane tidak bisa mengandung. Rencana genius itu pun Ayane jalankan tepat setelah ia membuat kesepakatan bersama Yoshitaka, yakni satu tahun sebelum Hiromi menemukan Yoshitaka tidak lagi bernyawa di ruang keluarga. Bubuk mematikan itu Ayane simpan pada sebuah filter air. Cerdiknya, setahun belakangan wanita tersebut selalu memastikan bahwa tidak akan ada satu orang pun yang pergi ke dapur untuk menggunakan filter air beracun itu. Itulah yang dimaksud Yukawa sebagai kejahatan sempurna. Maka tepat ketika Ayane berpamitan pergi ke Sapporo untuk beberapa hari, sejak itulah ia berhenti melindungi Yoshitaka dari kematian.

Saya sepenuhnya setuju tentang bagaimana Salvation of a Saint dapat dieksekusi dengan begitu hebat berdasarkan solusi bilangan imajiner yang diajukan Yukawa. Kita bahkan ditujukan kepada si pelaku sejak di awal bab. Hanya saja, perbedaan preferensi detektif dalam meraba informasi dan alibi para tersangka yang sama kuat berhasil membuat penyelidikan berjalan berkelit-kelit. Barangkali saat itu Hiromi tidak perlu berada di lokasi pada malam pembunuhan. Dengan begitu, semua tuduhan akan serta-merta jatuh kepada Ayane kendati Utsumi, Kusanagi, dan Detektif Galileo harus ekstra memutar otak untuk mendalami perilaku Ayane.

Kusanagi bahkan tidak perlu menyadari bahwa cintanya berakhir bertepuk sebelah tangan. 

∞/10. No words needed.

[misskohane]

"In the mood for a gothic mystery..."

Nov, 2024

[victoriagleasuredesigns]

“You must know that feeling when it's raining outside and the heating's on and you lose yourself, utterly, in a book. You read and you read and you feel the pages slipping through your fingers until suddenly there are fewer in your right hand than there are in your left and you want to slow down but you still hurtle on towards a conclusion you can hardly bear to discover.”Anthony Horowitz, Magpie Murders

There is nothing like a good mystery to challenge your expectations, and Anthony Horowitz knows how to plot a murder!  Today’s @owlcrate @octhenest @words.and.whimsy Good Vibrations photo challenge is Dazed and Confused: A book with a very involved plot. With Magpie Murders and Moonflower Murders, you get two books in one. As it is a mystery book that can give editor Susan Ryeland the vital clues she needs to solve a real murder.

 These books are pictured on the Vintage Car Quilt, ready to race from our Etsy shop at VictoriaGDesigns or www.victoriagleasuredesigns.com

[jimfostercoc]

Castleman: Killer Weed

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[nealenrick]

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“The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.” —Agatha Christie.

[vylad243]

Hi there, Ask: Did you see some of the Fandom comments or art about

Vox has similar characteristics as Error sans

or

vox meets Error sans.

What do you think ( Error Vox au)

in this AU Vox has a power-like Error sans

vox uses his strings to make dolls like Error sans

What do you think about this idea?

Hi!

I have no idea who Error is, sorry. It does sounds interesting, though.

Based on the info you gave me, I think Vox might have been taught by Velvette how to utilize those powers!

[dragonofdarknesschaos]

Hi there,

I have a question about Jack Spicer.

1- What was his life like before the Xiaolin Showdown?

2- What do his parents look like & their color scheme?

3- Did Jack have friends in his childhood past?

4- Is Jack good at playing a musical instrument?

5- How was Jack's relationship with his parents when he was a young child

6- Is Jack's hair naturally red or has he dyed it? Because I saw a lot of fan art and fan stories that say Jack dyed his hair red Is that true or not?

6- Was Jack's grandmother evil or was she just a genius Its inventor woman?

7- What are the things that Jack likes and what are the things that Jack does not like?

8- How Jack dresses when he's not taking over the world.

Like casual clothes Instead of a black trench coat.

9- What is Jack's level of intelligence and genius?

10- I want to know his back story & His life

11- How many people are in the Spicer family?

I know A little about Megan is Jack's little cousin

I'm going to do my best to answer these, but ultimately, there are no right or wrong answers, as canon doesn't provide any information.

We do not know what Jack's life was like before he released Wuya. Furthermore, some of the details in season one (e.g. the party that's going on in "Katnappe!" that Jack claims to hate) do not get carried over to season two and beyond (e.g. Jack seems to be alone in the entire estate at all times). Most headcanon that he is an only child, his father is able to work abroad and is wealthy, his mother is a socialite or trophy wife (possibly both) and both are too busy to give Jack the attention he desperately needs.

Nothing is known about Jack's dad. The only time he is mentioned is in episode one when a Jackbot delivers the puzzlebox containing Wuya's mask in it, saying, "A gift from your father in Hong Kong." Jack's mother is Caucasian or white-passing, extremely slender, and seems to embody the ideals of a 1950s American housewife from the two "appearances" she makes as an arm and legs. The only major detail is her square, red manicured nails.

Jack never makes any mention of friends, or to his "past," unless it's about himself. ...I'm starting to think he's neuro-divergent.

This is unknown. His voice actor in Xiaolin Showdown, Danny Cooksy, was part of a band called Bad 4 Good, so Jack can at least sing. One's own voice can count as an instrument. Jack goes on to rap in Chronicles. Outside of that, there is no further information in canon.

Showdown alludes to Jack having a coddling relationship with his mother. She encourages Jack to do enriching activities, even if he doesn't want to do them. He acts out and breaks makes robots out of her things when he doesn't like what she forces him to do. Occasionally she will bake Jack cookies. Because Jack never mentions his father, he likely wasn't around for Jack's upbringing, but he is at least alive... probably. Jack may have estranged himself from his father for some reason. Chronicles revealed in the 21st episode that does not exist, a short flashback to Jack as a child. He was waiting for both of his parents to come home for Christmas with presents, but they couldn't make it home in time for whatever reason (work or they had an arbitrary excuse not to go home). This is all Chronicles gives us on Jack's past.

Only Hui knows if Jack dyes his hair or not. Because his brows are black, he at least does makeup on them, or dyes them separately.

There is no information about Jack's granny other than he mentions her often, and seems to have a close relationship with her; he likes her gifts. Off hand I can't remember what those gifts specifically were, but they were standard, "You might need this, so here," type of gifts.

This question is too broad, so I cannot answer it. He likes his evil idols and Evil ™️, and thus hates "good" by extension.

Jack can wear whatever he wants. The animators and production designers seemed to have fun with his costume changes (see "Sands of Time" episode).

Jack would need to have at least 140 IQ to be considered a genius. He never mentions being contacted by MENSA, so he's not a super genius (but he still invented a time machine, go figure). He also mentions in season two, when Wuya calls his genius status into question, Jack says, of course he's a genius, "Who else would be smart enough to cheat on an IQ test?"

I don't know how to answer this one. Just watch the show???

It is unknown how many people are in the Spicer family. Jack's immediate family consists of at least his mother, father, and likely a maternal grandmother. Cousin Megan would be from an aunt or uncle. Most likely Megan's parent is related to Mama Spicer, as she's dressed and styled in a way reminiscent of 1950s or 1960s children's fashion.

I hope that covers everything. Again, the questions you're asking don't have any actual answers in canon. Which is nice, because it leaves it open to interpretation for fan fiction purposes. But it can also be frustrating if one really wants to drill into what is concrete in canon.

[hazbinhazbinhazbinreblog]

hi there, did you see my au about Oliver Hartfelt

I did not, was it sent in an ask or tagged? Either way I don't see anything, you're welcome to send it again if you like

[space-arts]

Take my very lazy comic based on your script, though a little changed cause... I'm lazy!

Klay being an ass to the robots is such a given, they absolutely deserve to get their revenge on him even just a little bit. Now I want one of the Code Masters to be a huge prankster and the robots in their area to be little pranksters too U_U.