My brain might finally stop hurting after the last recap of FoS.
I also remembered Decalogue of priest Knox-10 rules of a detective story from the ninetees “Crimes for priest Knox”(CZE). FoS held it:)
1.The felon must be mentioned at the beginning of the story.
2.Supernatural and unnatural factors are dismissed.
3.There cannot be more then 1 secret room in the story.
4.No unknown poison or a method that required long explanation cannot be used.
5.There cannot be any Chinese man (not to be rasist, just that they were trendy in nickel-and-dime detective stories).
6.The detective cannot solve the story by chance or some inexplicable intuition.
7.Our detective cannot be the culprit.
8.The detective cannot uncover a trace without debunking it to the viewer.
9.The “Watson” of the story cannot withhold any secret ideas and must be at most slightly uninteligent.
10.There cannot be twins or lookalikes.
allphryne
August 2, 2017 at 12:21 AM
My brain might finally stop hurting after the last recap of FoS.
I also remembered Decalogue of priest Knox-10 rules of a detective story from the ninetees “Crimes for priest Knox”(CZE). FoS held it:)
allphryne
August 2, 2017 at 12:30 AM
1.The felon must be mentioned at the beginning of the story.
2.Supernatural and unnatural factors are dismissed.
3.There cannot be more then 1 secret room in the story.
4.No unknown poison or a method that required long explanation cannot be used.
5.There cannot be any Chinese man (not to be rasist, just that they were trendy in nickel-and-dime detective stories).
allphryne
August 2, 2017 at 12:35 AM
6.The detective cannot solve the story by chance or some inexplicable intuition.
7.Our detective cannot be the culprit.
8.The detective cannot uncover a trace without debunking it to the viewer.
9.The “Watson” of the story cannot withhold any secret ideas and must be at most slightly uninteligent.
10.There cannot be twins or lookalikes.
allphryne
August 2, 2017 at 12:35 AM
Thinking back, the genre has made real progress, hehe.