Title: Keeper of Mysteries
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The Keeper of Mysteries protects different mystery theories.
Since i feel like being nice, i'll explain them simply.
Cat Box - hypothetically, there is a box with a cat inside. I could say the cat inside is alive while you can claim the cat is dead. Until we open up the box, both of our statements can be considered the 'truth' since we don't know what the real 'truth' is. Once we open up the box, do we get the real 'truth'
Hempel's Raven - a raven is black so the converse must be true. my shirt is white so it is not a raven, my cup is pink so it is not a raven.
Factor X - when we don't know the specific means of something, we can claim the murder was done by 'trap X', 'trick X', poison 'X', etc.
Devil's Proof - until you search the entire world (every nook and cranny), you cannot claim that something does not exist.
Knox's Ten Commandments:
I. The criminal must be someone mentioned in the early part of the story, but must not be anyone whose thoughts the reader has been allowed to follow
II. All supernatural or preternatural agencies are ruled out as a matter of course
III. No more than one secret room or passage is allowable. I would add that a secret passage should not be brought in at all unless the action takes place in the kind of house where such devices might be expected
IV. No hitherto undiscovered poisons may be used, nor any appliance which will need a long scientific explanation at the end
V. No Chinaman must figure into the story
VI. No accident must ever help the detective, nor must he ever have an unaccountable intuition which proves to be right
VII. The detective must not, himself, commit the crime
VIII. The detective must not light on any clues which are not instantly produced for the inspection of the reader
IX. The stupid friend of the detective, the Watson, must not conceal any thoughts which pass through his mind; his intelligence must be slightly, but only very slightly, below that of the average reader
X. Twin brothers, and doubles generally, must not appear unless we have been duly prepared for them
I wanted to add Van Dine's 20 rules but i couldnt think of how to represent them. if you guys have any idea how i can do that, id appreciate you commenting it down below =3
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