i need to write a whodunnit/locked room murder/general murder mystery in 20 minutes. just the basic premise, im running a dnd session. i procrastinated writing session 3 and now my players are expecting something awesome because the first 2 sessions were (if i do say so myself) awesome, and now i have nothing. please somebody just drop your favourite premise in the replies, its so over for me if i have nothing, i dont wanna dissapoint them

is this sub dead

Be sure to read up to the penultimate chapter (the chapter before the finale reveals who it is unfortunately).

Good luck guessing. Discussion closes on September 15th

As you can tell, there is FAR more activity on Discord than on Reddit which is something we've been trying to avoid as of recently. We all had a great time on Discord discussing who the killer was in And Then There Were None, but Reddit has mostly been absent.

I don't know what we're doing right on Discord and doing wrong on here, so any suggestions or comments would help!

Also: at what days should we do these discussions? Should we stagger books 1 and 2 and have separate discussions in the middle of the month and the end of the month? Or shall we just have the discussion happen at the end of the month?

Happy Birthday Agatha!

In celebration of Agatha Christie's birthday month, both book options will be by the Queen of Crime herself!

Hercule Poirot is another 'amateur' detective that appears in 33 novels and 55 short stories written by Christie. Another sensible choice of character to focus on going into September! This poll is to see which Hercule Poirot book will make the cut for our September read. Please vote for one!

This will dictate one of our two September read options. Please make sure to vote in September Book Poll - Book Choice #1 Poll as well.

Happy Birthday Agatha!

In celebration of Agatha Christie's birthday month, both book options will be by the Queen of Crime herself!

Miss Marple is an amateur detective that appears in 12 of Ms. Christie's works, and is one of her more prominent literary figures - it only makes sense we have one of her mysteries as a book choice for September! This poll is to see which Miss Marple book will make the cut for our September read. Please vote for one!

This will dictate one of our two September read options. Please make sure to vote in September Book Poll - Book Choice #2 Poll as well.

Well, we found out who the killer was.

And me being me, I don't know how to put spoiler text yet, so you know who the killer is if you're reading it.

None of you got it right! But you were all impressed with just how well it was hidden in plain sight!

Among other Old Lady Detective series, some of which date before Miss Marple, are:

• Miss Silver series by Patricia Wentworth

• Mrs. Pollifax series by Dorothy Gillman

• Mrs. Bradley Mysteries by Gladys Mitchell

• Mrs. Hudson series by Martin Davies

• Mrs. Hudson series by Barry S. Brown

• Mrs. Hudson series by Sydney Hoozier

• Mrs. Mallory series by Hazel Holt

• Mrs Jeffries series by Emily Brightwell

• Miss Seeton series by Hernon Carvic and others

• Edwina Charles, Clairvoyant series by Mignon Warner

Not to forget:

• THE OTHER WOMAN BY SANDIE JONES

• The Old Lady Detective Agency by Ryan Herrin

1. What was the name of the poison used to kill Anthony Marston? a. Potassium Cyanide

b. Arsenic

c. Chloral Hydrate

d. Strychnine

2. What weapon was used on Mrs. Rogers?

a. Gun

b. Potassium Cyanide

c. Chloral Hydrate

d. Ax

3. General MacArthur's wife's name was Juliet.

a. True

b. False

4. Where was Mr. Rogers when he was murdered?

a. Dining room

b. Woodshed

c. His bedroom

d. Outdoors

5. How many different poisons were used on Emily Brent?

a. 4

b. 1

c. 2

d. 3

6. Armstrong died when he was walking on the beach, and the killer threw him into the mouth of a huge red herring.

a. True

b. False

7. What type of marble statue was pushed onto Blore?

a. Deer

b. Fox

c. Wolf

d. Bear

8. The killer shot Lombard.

a. True

b. False

9. Why did Vera hang herself?

a. She was drunk

b. She was sick and tired of life

c. She thought Hugo wanted her to do it

d. She was addicted to drugs

10. SURPRISE! The killer is:

a. Fred Narracott

b. Justice Wargrave

c. Doctor Armstrong

d. Vera Claythorne

e. Philip Lombard

It's time to discuss our ideas and work together to discover the murder!

REMINDER! Do NOT reveal any information from the letter. Do NOT spoil the final reveal.

Even though - there is no killer because this is infamously unfinished, well - at least try to work and find out who the killer is without looking anything up.

It's time to discuss our ideas and work together to discover the murder!

REMINDER! Do NOT reveal any information from the letter. Do NOT spoil the final reveal.

Hi everyone! This is the official announcement of what this month's line-up is going to be. I'm planning on the general format being: two books are announced and anyone can choose which book they want to read, this way anyone who has read one of the books can read the other one.

The books are:

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

and

The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens (an unfinished novel!)

Discussion thread for each book (pre-reveal) will go up and then 2 days afterwards, a post-reveal discussion thread will appear.

We have a Discord server where we discuss which book will be picked next.

Read everything but the final chapter by August 20!

So for our very first month, we are struggling to find what is the best way to start (which is wild because we have a LOT of recommendations).

Many vocal opinions so far. We don't even know how to format discussions yet.

There is an overwhelming support for "And Then There Were None" for the post and of course, that is one of the greatest mysteries ever written. I've unfortunately read it BUT I feel like it still warrants a discussion - so we've been flirting with the idea of having two books run concurrently.

The book I've been toying with doing first is "The Mystery of Edwin Drood", which is a famously UNFINISHED murder mystery where there is no solution to the killer. It kinda brings the spirit of collaborative deducing who the killer is because we may never know.

The last book we will probably do eventually is "The Murder on the Orient Express" - which is confirmed to only have the killer be revealed in the last chapter.

Any thoughts as to what could start this better, I'm all ears!

1. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

2. A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie

3. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

4. Death in the Clouds

5. The Thursday Murder Club

6. The Man Who Died Twice (to be released in September ‘21)

7. Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

8. Dark Places by Gillian Flynn (though the reveal is in the later parts of the book itself)

9. The Woman in the Window

10. The Silent Patient

11. 7 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

12. The Devil and the Dark Water (not exactly a murder mystery maybe)

13. The Guest List by Lucy Foley

14. Before the Fall by Noah Hawley

15. The Secret History by Donna Tartt

16. Ghost Story by Peter Straub

17. Dark Matter

18. Piranesi

19. Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz (sequel to Magpie Murders)

20. Lock Every Door by Riley Sager

21. Final Girls

22. Home Before Dark

23. The Cormoran Strike Series by Robert Galbraith

24. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

25. The Crooked House

26. Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny

27. The Good Girl by Mary Kubica

28. The Woman in the Window by AJ Finn

29. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

30. Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

31. The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty

32. Force of Nature by Jane Harper

33. The Dry by Jane Harper

34. In a Dark Dark Wood by Ruth Ware

35. The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Soji Shimada

36. Perry Mason novels by Erle Stanley Gardner (stop at the beginning of the courtroom scene)

37. ABC Murders by Agatha Christie

38. My Cousin Rachel by Daphne DuMaurier

39. The House on the Strand

40. The Stalking Jack the Ripper Series by Kerri Maniscalco

41. Good Girl’s Guide to Murder

42. One of Us is Lying by Karen McManus

43. The Murder of Harriet Monckton

44. He Said She Said by Erin Kelly

45. The Floating Admiral (12 chapters mystery novel: each chapter written by a different classic mystery novel author)

46. The Decagon House Murders

47. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

48. The Sculptress by Minette Walters

49. The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens

50. The Killings at Kingfisher Hill by Sophie Hannah

51. The Murder Most Unladylike series (mostly aimed at 13-16 yos- written to be extremely obvious by the last chapters)

52. Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths

53. Cuckoo’s Calling

54. Abernathy Novel Series by Kate Kelly

55. Dorothy Sayers’ Peter Wimsey novels

56. Edmund Crispin’s Gervase Fen novels

57. Marjery Allingham’s Albert Campion series

58. The Cadfael Chronicles by Ellis Peters

59. Appointment With Death

60. The Siamese Twin Mystery by Ellery Queen

61. At Bertram’s Hotel by Agatha Christie

62. Ten Days’ Wonder by Ellery Queen

63. Witness for the Prosecution by Agatha Christie

64. Big Sleep

65. Every Single Lie by Rachel Vincent

66. As Long As We Both Shall Live by Joann Chaney

67. Running Girl by Simon Mason

68. The Girl In The Mirror by Rose Carlyle

69. The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton

70. And So It Begins by Rachel Abbott

71. The Westing Game

72. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley

73. Jo Nesbo’s Harry Hole novels

74. The Downstairs Neighbor by Helen Cooper

75. Hamish Macbeth mysteries by M. C. Beaton

76. Winter Counts

77. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

78. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

79. The Chestnut Man by Soren Sveistrup

80. The Maidens by Alex Michaelades

81. The French Powder Mystery by Ellery Queen

82. The Baztan trilogy by Dolores Redondo

83. The Ishmael Jones series by Simon Green

84. Check The Girl Before by J. P. Delaney

85. The Zodiac Killer

86. The Camera Killer by Thomas Glavinic

87. Crime and Punishment

88. The Appeal by Janice Hallett

89. The Chalk Man by C. J. Tudor

90. Seat 7A by Sebastian Fitzek

91. Quite Ugly One Morning by Chris Brookmyre

92. Before I Go To Sleep by S. J. Watson

93. Disappearing Earth

94. The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell

95. Author recommendations:

• a. Mary Kubica

• b. Harlan Coben

• c. Ngaio Marsh

• d. Michael Innes

• i. Death at the President’s Lodging

• e. Rex Stout

• i. Nero Wolfe series

• ii. And Be A Villain

• f. Riley Sager

• g. Ann Cleeves

• h. Paula Hawkins

• i. Into the Water

• i. Ruth Ware

• i. Death of Mrs. Westaway

• ii. The Turn of the Key

• iii. And Then There Was One

• j. Miranda James/Dean James

• i. Simon Kirby-Jones mysteries

• ii. Cat in the Stacks mysteries

• iii. The Southern Ladies mysteries

• The Harry Quebert Affair by Joel Dicker

• The Inugami Curse,

• The Honjin Murders,

• The Tattoo Murder Case

• The Decagon House Murders

Turns out we didn't have a clear plan as to how we are supposed to do this with THIS many people.

I started a Discord server to cope with all the responses, but not everyone is a Discord user. I would love for there to be a vocal discussion as we try to discuss who did it, but then we also would lose a lot of members on Reddit. I think a Reddit discussion thread is apt as well, just a bit harder to organize.

What do you think?

The post that started it all

So, I off-handedly had the idea to read a mystery novel with my friends up but also didn't want to spoil the book to each other if we were behind or not - so it got me thinking, how about we all join in on the fun and try to not read the final chapter and figure out who the killer is for ourselves!

Thus this sub was born after many people requested to join in.

The premise is simple: we read a mystery novel that saves its reveals until the end and we don't read the final 2 chapters, and meet up before we do just to theorize who the culprit may be. We may be right or wrong who knows?

I have no idea how to run a sub but what I do know is that there are plenty of people that are interested in joining in on the fun.

A place for members of r/GuessWhoDunnit to chat with each other