“When was that wall built?
Ariel told me she heard you say it was a load-bearing wall and could not be removed without weakening the structure.
I was right, this lumber from the era the building was made…”
1 September 2023, 1.00 pm
On Rete 4 they give yet another repeat of an episode Jessica Fletcher, She wrote.
I love Jessica. The perfect woman, the one who always knows what to say, cultured, kind, good, friendly, affectionate, intelligent, neither fat nor thin, perfectly educated, always politically correct.
“Did you explain why you made the lowest offer when you heard Better wanted to renovate this house? No, you don't have to be sure that the wall would stay in place so that no one would find out that you had hidden poor Laura inside after burning then you had to…”.
Intuition, elegance, observation, vivacity, Jessica is the perfect investigator, the one who restores the status quo ante in yellows.
An efficient team of authors and screenwriters set up the fiction, wrote the episodes, outlined the characters, defined the details, built crimes and alibis. It is not easy and the episodes of J.F. they are perfect yellows. Yellow is a beloved genre for readers and viewers, but to work it must respond to very specific rules.
I wrote a novel and several short stories following all the classic rules of mystery literature, rules which I will talk about in a future post.
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