Re: Are there any mysteries like this


Hi, I'm thinking of a book that almost, but not quite fits your
description....

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There's a book by Mary McMullen called BUT NELLIE WAS SO NICE. Nellie is
the main character in Part One of the book. She's murdered at the end of
Part 1 (offscreen/offpage, if I am remembering correctly). Then, in Part
Two, her nephew - who wasn't present much in Part 1 - investigates her
death.

I read this book at least a decade ago, maybe more, but I do remember liking
it. Like all of McMullen's books, it's slim and easy to get through.

Christian






<artyw2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> The victim is the main character for about 1/2 of the book. Then they
> get murdered and the main character is now the investigator who didn't
> know the victim. There is a sharp contrast between what the reader has
> learned about the victim in the first half and what the investigator
> (and other characters including the suspects) think about the victim.
> The dissection (both literally and figuratively)of the victim is quite
> jarring. This might be hard to pull off, but if done right could be
> quite fascinating.
>
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> (I recall a movie about someone who had been kept locked up by his
> family(?) most of his life. Then he gets released and slowly learns to
> adjust to "normal" life". At the end of the movie he is murdered and at
> the autopsy the doctors note some abnormalities of his brain which they
> attribute to his unusual life. The last scene, with the brain on the
> main character on the dissecting table is quite disturbing to say the
> least. This movie was based on a true story --It is called the mystery
> of Kaspar Hausar)
>


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