6 8 2022
We have it so hard!
Here we are trucking along, trying to get a mystery published. Bragging to our
friends that we know how to commit the perfect crime. Doing all our research,
working hard on it. Then we decide to try it out.
Not our fault if we get
caught. We tried.
The above is what I imagine was going through the head of
Cynthia McDonnell, aspiring mystery writer, who decided to let her LEO husband,
Don McDonnell have it. Googling her name will bring up a lot of info on this
case.
Here’s something about her case:
https://forensicfiles.fandom.com/wiki/Cynthia_McDonnell
If that one goes away, which it might, here’s another
article:
https://delanirbartlette.medium.com/cynthia-mcdonnell-murder-she-wrote-badly-4c2425ae1e50
True confession: I watch old Forensic File reruns and sometimes
watch them more than once.
There’s another case now. I remembered watching this old one
when the current case was settled. This wife is a romance writer, so maybe she
had even less chance of success. She did write an essay entitled “How to Murder
your Husband” but maybe it wasn’t well done. I didn’t read it. She, Nancy
Brophy, was convicted last month.
But this older case is more interesting to me. I want to
know if anyone was critiquing her work, and what courses she took to learn how
to write a mystery. Because this was far from perfect! She did everything
wrong! First, she said it was a break in. But she forget to make it LOOK like a
break in. Then she decided to tell them it was a suicide, and concocted a big,
wild, fake story to go with that. But she had no idea how to make it look like
a suicide. It didn’t.
The part that makes an impression on me is that her
bookshelf was used to make her look guilty.
Her bookshelf, from the show:
My bookshelf, photo taken yesterday:
See why this worries me? Mystery writers, I’ll bet all our
shelves look like this, yes?
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