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Analice Member	Posted I tried, and it hurt my head, and I cannot grasp the clue in the title in Gaiman's Murder Mysteries... Can somebody enlighten me, please??
	Posts: 3 | Registered: September 10, 2006

Mischief the enigmatic Polarbear his colours are like your dream Member	Posted Hide Post it's a whodunit? ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hyperbole is, without a shadow of doubt, the single greatest thing in the universe!
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GMZoe Village Elder Member	Posted Hide Post The clue is that it's plural - N has commented that some readers don't notice there are two murder mysteries, not just one
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Analice Member	Posted Hide Post ****** CAREFULL!!! SPOILER!!! ******* Is it that simple? I saw some sites that play with "Murder My Steries" (as in murder my "stories"?) but it does not seems to make much sense. Also, Mysteries has a religious sense, in which the sentence could be seen as the Mystery of Murder, as in the Mystery of Faith, because it is God who is behind it all...
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Swordfishtrombones Member	Posted Hide Post quote: Originally posted by GMZoe: The clue is that it's plural - N has commented that some readers don't notice there are two murder mysteries, not just one Oh wow. This is something I have been trying to figure out. What is the actual murder count? I have four with a possible five. Please help!
	Posts: 12 | Registered: February 17, 2007

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Black Wings Member

Posted Hide Post *********SPOLIER********* I remember two murders in the prose story, and three (I think) in the graphic novel version. I never thought the narrator killed his ex-girlfriend and her kid. Maybe it hinted at it subtly and I missed it. In the comic it was explicit. Maybe I should read it again. ---------------------------------- Black Wings loves all of you, even though many of you are new since he vanished for a year. Boundless love for all!

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Daniel Member	Posted Hide Post I commented on this a while back, but I can't track down the relevant thread. The angels in the story were designing Creation, so death didn't exist yet in the world. When an angel was killed, they had never experienced it before, and murder was a mystery to them.
	Posts: 91 | Registered: February 05, 2002

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dafedge Member	Posted Hide Post lets not forget the religious connotations of the word mysteries
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sammael Poisoner of Chonae Member

Posted Hide Post The explanation is the more prosaic one offered by GMZoe - there are mutiple murders, and the narrator (a hellbound soul if ever there was one - personally I think the end scene in the elevator is a reference to the movie Angel Heart, where Mickey Rourke is a murderer who has soul his soul to Lou Cifer, played by Robert DeNiro) killed his partner and their child (I believe, among others). cause and effect: the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them. Charles Bukowski Septuagenarian Stew

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