Happy New Year everyone! Carol Reed Mystery #20 - Murder Malady is Now Available. What a great way to start out the New Year!

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Something I should have noticed before (says something about my powers of observation LOL) is that Mikael -er- Carol is left-handed.

From a research paper: " Left-handers' brains are structured differently from right-handers' in ways that can allow them to process language, spatial relations and emotions in more diverse and potentially creative ways."

Just a random thought there. Ok - back to the game!

Hi BET 🙂

Yep. And thank you.

(Got my email today so off to buy !!)

Cheers.

Mad

Thanks Ana!

Hi Bet thank you for the link , Hi Tally Ho Hi Mad and good to see you oldbroad ......Great to see you all and all my Boomie friends I just used my Daughters Christmas card gift I just purchased mine also .... wishing you all a Very Healthy Happy New Year cant wait to start

Happy New Year to you, Leeana! Enjoy the game!

Enjoy the game, Leeana!

Thank you Ana!

And, for your information Tally Ho, Carol is left-handed, but I'm not. I guess that you're referring to the mouse being on the left side of the keyboard?

I have decided to list some of my favorite things about Carol and her mysteries. This will be in several disjointed posts.

My first delight is the recurring characters giving the stories a humanizing touch who balance out Carol's sturdy singlemindedness with their charm and eccentricity. What new place will Stina be working I always wonder. I think she has worked for the library before. Perhaps she has one main job then plenty of ever shifting side gigs. I can't remember whether Stina has had her own mystery yet. Shame on me. Something to check out. I look forward to the minor characters in a Carol Reed adventure as much as I do to the mystery itself.

Rather than making multiple posts in a row, 8dognight, just hit the "edit" button on your initial post here and you can keep adding to it that way.

I look forward to hearing what you have to say. I totally agree about looking forward to and hoping to see some of the minor characters in every new installment.

I'm sorry Marian, but I have to disagree with using the "edit" button. I think things get missed that way.

Looking forward to hearing more, 8dognight!

Regarding Stina, she did have her own mystery once, in Amber's Blood which involved her I think, grandfather.
Don't recall the exact details now, but I do remember she was in bed after hurting her ankle.

I agree with you there, ob. However, we are not supposed to stack posts, which sounded like it might be a possibility in this instance. If it is not, 8dognight should feel free to carry on the way that she was going to - I did not mean to confuse the issue.

And it's nice to see you here, RebKean. Happy New Year and I hope it is a good year for you.

I know we're not supposed to "stack posts", Marian, and I appreciate that Ana hasn't scolded me because I know I do it sometimes. It's just that I know I have missed "edits" and saw them by accident much later.

Me too, ob!

Most of Norrkoping's evil doers that come Carol's way may well be related, indeed, in one case (or perhaps more given the state of my memory) twins separated at birth.

Beyond that, these malefactors have a devilish predilection for puzzles, a penchant shared by other off stage characters whose conundrums bewilder Carol's clients. This could be genetic drift caused by a prolific ancestor and some geographic disaster isolating Norrkoping in the dim and distant past. A more likely explanation is educational similarities. "Today, students, we study the enigma machine. Please, turn to invisibly numbered page 2121. You will find the table of contents under a bridge." I love that about fictional Norrkoping's educational system which obviously only lasted a couple of generations. Now a grateful city must turn to Carol to root out the clues left by progenitors. This explains how she can pay the rent on that gem of an apartment.

Carol's world is quotidian and simultaneously mythic which, I think, explains much of its appeal. The mythic journey of continuously built solutions is the same every-day reality created by Mikael's extraordinary photographs of landscapes and uplifting architecture, graffiti and long abandoned labyrinthine industrial or domestic sites. I am grateful that Mikael knows not to overdo the sequences that can turn a small apartment into a bewildering maze. The older I get the easier I am to confuse.

*****

Oh, and thanks RebKean for the tip on Amber's Blood.

I haven't had a Carol Reed festival for a few years now so I think that will be next on my list.

I love reading your observations about the series, 8dognight! Really fun.

And this is all making me feel quite tempted to begin a Carol Reed marathon this year.

I've decided not to read anything Carol Reed related until after I play the new game. Not exactly sure when that will be so I hope I don't forget to come back to these threads.

Exactly, Mikael. That's what caught by eye.