{"id":6724,"date":"2016-11-29T10:06:50","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T10:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6724"},"modified":"2016-11-29T10:06:50","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T10:06:50","slug":"two-types-of-murder-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6724","title":{"rendered":"Two Types of Murder mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\">A murder mystery requires a unsolved crime. An investigator (protagonist) has to unravel the mystery by putting the clues and evidence together to catch the criminal. There are two ways this can be approached. The two story types are Open and Closed.\u00a0This can be better explained by looking at murder mystery\u00a0films and TV shows.<\/p>\n<p>Open<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of the film, the audience are shown the\u00a0perpetrator committing the \u2018perfect crime\u2019. We know who did it and how. The question is will they get caught? The show follows the protagonist as they attempt to unravel the story and unmask the guilty party.<\/p>\n<p>Closed<\/p>\n<p>The classic \u2018whodunit\u2019. Neither the audience nor the\u00a0protagonist know the identity of the murderer. In this case the story concerns finding out what happened, but also know is involved. There is a different element of suspense\u00a0involved when the audience know as much, or as little, as the investigator.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B005UXJNPU\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=B005UXJNPU&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=invittoevent-21\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=B005UXJNPU&amp;Format=_SL250_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=GB&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=invittoevent-21\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B005UXJNPU\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=B005UXJNPU&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=invittoevent-21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i><b>Columbo<\/b><\/i> <\/a>was\u00a0an American television series which used the Open format. The shows began by showing the crime and its perpetrator.\u00a0The story unfolded to show\u00a0how the perpetrator was\u00a0finally be caught and exposed. The show&#8217;s writers called this method of murder mystery a &#8220;howcatchem,&#8221; rather than a &#8220;whodunit&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B005UXJNPU\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=B005UXJNPU&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=invittoevent-21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7541\" src=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/columbo-268641_1280.jpg\" alt=\"columbo-268641_1280\" width=\"965\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/columbo-268641_1280.jpg 965w, https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/columbo-268641_1280-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/columbo-268641_1280-772x1024.jpg 772w, https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/columbo-268641_1280-768x1019.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 965px) 100vw, 965px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A murder mystery requires a unsolved crime. An investigator (protagonist) has to unravel the mystery by putting the clues and evidence together to catch the criminal. There are two ways this can be approached. The two story types are Open and Closed.\u00a0This can be better explained by looking at murder mystery\u00a0films and TV shows. Open &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6724\">More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two Types of Murder mystery<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,580],"tags":[1265,1266,122,1267],"class_list":["post-6724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-films","category-murder-mystery-books","tag-columbo","tag-howcatchem","tag-murder-mystery","tag-whodunit"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Two Types of Murder mystery - City Adventurers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6724\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Two Types of Murder mystery - City Adventurers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A murder mystery requires a unsolved crime. 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