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Re: Prompt help

[(Anonymous)]

How can I get a housebound character involved in a murder mystery?

Re: Prompt help

[(Anonymous)]

Rear Window is the obvious choice -- they witness something suspicious from their house, and keep trying to figure out ways to investigate without stepping foot outside, a la Nero Wolfe.

Or if it's a modern canon, give them an obsession with online amateur crime solving websites, and have them stumble across something nobody else has connected the dots on before.

Re: Prompt help

[(Anonymous)]

Do they need to find out about it or just a way to participate in it? If the first, make it something that can be discovered through reading the paper or a forum. Missing persons databases or websleuths? Maybe they heard a noise and call a tip line? Or they notice some clues that people who don’t regularly read the paper from cover to cover wouldn’t notice? Or they’re an expert in some thing and the detective contacts them?

If the second, can they do the research online? Make the costumes/props for an investigation (think Sam and Dean’s FBI badges)?

Re: Prompt help

[(Anonymous)]

Those loud and shitty upstairs/next door neighbours haven't been so obnoxious recently, it's nice and quiet. TOO QUIET.

Re: Prompt help

[(Anonymous)]

If they're in an era with telephones/email and web access/letter-based correspondence, maybe someone draws them into the mystery via a mis-sent missive or a request for long-distance help?