Steele's 10 rules for Whodunits

1.  There is always a corpse involved.

2. The location of the action is always an exotic or luxurious locale.

3.  The Victim is always the biggest asshole on the premises, someone that nobody really liked.

4.  The murderer is never the one suspected at first.

5.  The murderer always commits the murder in such a way to throw suspicion on someone else.

6.  When the murder is happening, all you can see are the murderer's feet.

 
7.  The murderer is always the one person you would NEVER suspect.  (Your grandmother,  Mother Teresa, Mahatma Gandhi, a little girl selling cookies). 

8.  The nefarious past and reason nobody liked the Victim is gradually and painstakingly revealed. 

9.  The murderer is finally confronted in one final scene by the detective,  if any plot elements are unexplained these are cleared up here by the murderer who suddenly turns talkative once  he/she has the detective at his/her mercy and is holding him/her

at gunpoint, however, and this is always the case that...


10.  ...a momentary lapse of attention by the murderer allows the detective to knock the gun out of his hands, a brief struggle ensues, and  the policemen clap him/her in handcuffs and take him/her away. 

 

Book em' Danno.