If you know me at all, you know I love a good mystery story.  Dame Agatha Christie, Jonathan Kellerman, Joseph Hansen, Martha Grimes, Earl Derr Biggers, Dashiell Hammett, Robert Parker, Minette Walters, Joe Lansdale, Wilkie Collins, and many many more all come to mind.  There is something intriguing about a whodunit or even a whydonit. 

They are also such fantastic period pieces, where you journey to another place and live in a different time.  You can read about Dave Brandstetter in the 1970s in California when a gay detective was a novelty, or about the 1930s with Miss Marple solving village murder cases between the wars in England and between cups of tea.  Mysteries are somewhat formulaic, but within those formula there is room for characters to bloom and eras to be lived. 

Let's try our hand at our mystery set in another time and another place.  

#231 - You find the dead body of a complete stranger in a trunk in an attic.  Make it interesting.  When did this happen?  Where in the world?  What relationship do you have with it.  No need to solve this mystery.  Just set it up and see what happens.  

#232 - You are digging through an old file when you come upon some pictures.  In what media are these pictures?  What are they wearing?  What about these images worry you?  Again, we aren't figuring out what happened.  We are building a mystery.

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