Unseen Machinations of Murder Monday

[evelyn_b]

What I've Finished Reading

The Dead Man's Knock was perfectly satisfying, and just as pulpy as its cover promised. Dr. Gideon Fell is a good old-fashioned eccentric amateur - an enormous, rumpled, and billowing English expert on something or other who walks with (and/or brandishes) two canes, likes baffling his American hosts with cryptic jokes

Comments

[liadtbunny]

Yay for bogus made up psychology! I also like made up cures (a trip to a hospital in Sweden/Switzerland usually cures everything).

Another good book cover: there's a murder in her purse!

[evelyn_b]

My favorite kind of psychology! And as much as I like for present-day medical technology to exist, those bright blue and white mountain cure hotels always seemed like they would be a good place to spend a couple of weeks. Sometimes what's wrong with you can't be cured by MOUNTAIN AIR, but I'm sure that sometimes it couldn't hurt.

[liadtbunny]

After psychiatrists whose treatment involves telling the patient to snap out of it, who wouldn't want some fresh mountain air;p

If I made film sequels it would be about a plucky, young intern exposing bogus psychiatrists from the first.

[evelyn_b]

I would read or watch your tales of plucky young intern bullshit hunting! As long as they didn't all end with the p.y. intern confined to a state hospital and receiving bogus psychiatric treatment for pathological insensitivity to authority figures. You can probably avoid this fate by making the p.y.i. a young man instead of the young woman I was picturing.

[liadtbunny]

Don't worry, in the third film, the P.Y.I will get out of the psychiatric hospital and prove that they are, in fact, totally sane and didn't shoot their wife either. Hoorah!