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Mystery: August 07, 2019 Issue [#9691]




 This week: The Open Window
  Edited by: Annette Author IconMail Icon
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2. A Word from our Sponsor
3. Letter from the Editor
4. Editor's Picks
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Writers and readers of Mystery, I am Annette Author Icon and I will be your guest editor for this issue.


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Letter from the editor

The Open Window


The open window can be a clue or a diversion. Your detective comes onto the scene of the crime and the window is wide open. As a writer, you have several options on how to use that open window. You can have it be a blatant clue, but you can also use it as a diversion. I have given you a few options as to what the open window can mean in a mystery story, but I am sure you can come up with several more.

First option: This is how the perpetrator got in.

Second option: This how the perpetrator got out.

Third option: The window was open for fresh air and the perpetrator left out the door.

Fourth option: The perpetrator is still somewhere in the room.

The open window can be used to confuse your reader, or to write a confused detective. Both the reader and the detective have the same goal upon discovery of the crime scene with the open window. They are assessing all the details. As the writer, you are providing those. Not only are you describing the scene as it is found, you should also give some information as to how your detective reacts to the information they collect. What are their conclusions? How much importance do they give the open window? Do they leave it open or close it? Why close it or open it? So many bits of information to cluster around an open window.



Editor's Picks

 The Open Window Open in new Window. (E)
A man is dead and the clues lead to an astonishing solution to this mystery.
#2193929 by Ned Author IconMail Icon

 A light in the window Open in new Window. (18+)
It's complicated, after 20 years will they meet face to face (words 6085)
#2145865 by Circuit Rider Author IconMail Icon

 
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Kara's life was full of activity, and deadlines, but it wasn't always so.
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Crooked House Open in new Window. (E)
Matt's ordeal with a maze.
#1873249 by Teargen Author IconMail Icon

Malice Intended Open in new Window. (ASR)
Who is the slapdash, foolish criminal behind a crime scene in a hotel?
#445131 by Joy Author IconMail Icon

The Music Box Open in new Window. (18+)
Honorable Mention Winner in the 75th Writer's Digest Competition.
#1093302 by SantaBee Author IconMail Icon

 A Tale of Murder and Fog Open in new Window. (GC)
A body is discovered under mysterious circumstances.
#1969621 by Duane Engelhardt Author IconMail Icon

 The Fly on the Pipe Outside the Window Open in new Window. (E)
"..[it] lay there..., appearing to be quite fascinated by the lengthy..metal piping.."
#1524433 by Tim Chiu Author IconMail Icon

 The Deep Open in new Window. (E)
"Through The Windowpane"
#1074254 by T.L.Finch Author IconMail Icon


 
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