Thursday, February 11, 2010

"Murder?" he said


I’m working on another murder mystery. The theme is pretty close to home in our little community: the director of an ambitious waterfront development plan is blown up in his luxury motor launch at the town jetty. The dinner audience will have to work out who did it. I think it’s going to be fun.
Watching three murder cases being reported from the Courts tonight has reminded me that these tragedies and their solutions actually come with tremendous pain and angst for everyone. And justice in its purest form is often elusive.
I hope the fun I am planning doesn’t diminish the seriousness of the real thing. And perhaps this time, I should devise a murder that turns out to be only an accident…

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