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Writers and readers of Mystery, I am Annette and I will be your guest editor for this issue.
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.
The Open Window (E) A man is dead and the clues lead to an astonishing solution to this mystery. #2193929 by Ned
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