Writer-director Rian Johnson hits the books to create a locked-room mystery Raise a Dead Man: The Mystery of the Knivesas well as the Spring Book Club for film week. And if you’re in a hurry, you’ll check out the entire whodunnit reading list on the screen to add to your TBR pile.
There is an important incident in the investigation of the debonair detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) about the murder of the “legendary of detectives” in Our Lady of Perpetual Fortitude, where the accused Jud Duplenticy (Josh O’Connor) helps him shoot in the parish office to find a clue. They found one, simple piece of paper.
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On the page, the priest and the detective find a list of the titles of the church’s book group, and the parishioners seem to be having a mysterious whodunnit. The list not only covers the key to John Dickson Carr’s “Syllabus of how to do the perfect crime.” The Criminal Manbut there are enough Agatha Christie and Edgar Allan Poe to make the impossible crime seem possible.
Here’s everything on the Our Lady of Perpetual Fortitude book club list – and there’s a great link to the middle kill Wake Up Dead Man (but no spoilers).
The Criminal Man by John Dickson Carr
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A 1935 mystery novel by American author John Dickson Carr, The Criminal Manaccompanied by his recurring detective Gideon Fell, it’s like discovering the elements of an impossible crime. In chapter 17, the detective gives his “locked room speech” directly to the reader, explaining the “standard mechanisms” by which murders – such as, that of Monsignor Jefferson Wicks (Josh Brolin) – can be carried out in seemingly impossible circumstances. In fact, Blanc himself uses the book to solve the case Wake Up Dead Mancalling it a “syllabus on how to commit the perfect crime.”
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Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers
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It was published in 1923, an amazing name Whose Body? is the first in a 14-book English detective series by Dorothy L. Sayers. Introducing the iconic Lord Peter Wimsey, Sayers’ novice detective. His first offense? A London financier is murdered and left in a bathtub, naked but for a golden pince-nez. Hear that Wake Up Dead Man viewers? A the bathtub.
The Murderers of the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe
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Netflix’s titles are a bit like Edgar Allan Poe, which appears Wednesday to The fall of the house of Usher. In Wake Up Dead Manthere is a famous article from an American writer on the list, a short story from 1841 The Murderers of the Rue Morgue. The tale features the first appearance of a character considered to be the first detective of fiction, the great Poe C. Auguste Dupin, who had an immeasurable influence on one Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his detective, Sherlock Holmes. A detective is faced with the mystery of a locked door, brutal and brutal murders and the last killer you will ever suspect.
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
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Who among you detectives of crime fiction does not know Hercule Poirot, the famous Agatha Christie from Belgium, the moustachioed detective or Miss Marple, her famous old, English, novice detective. The British author has two titles on the list of the Our Lady of Perpetual Fortitude book club, which includes her best investigators. Published in 1926, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd it is a perfect masterpiece of a twisted crime novel, where Poirot leaves his vegetable garden to solve the murder of a rich widow. There are crimes, secret meetings, mysterious steps, and yes, the crime scene is a locked room.
Killing in the Village by Agatha Christie
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Miss Marple’s first appearance was in Christie’s 1930 novel Killing in the Villagea murder mystery set in the small English town of St Mary Mead – great Wake Up Dead Man vibes. In this whodunnit, the town’s local magistrate and church warden are hated by everyone in the village – and he turns up dead at his lesson. Everyone has a purpose, and no one is safe from Miss Marple’s watchful eye.
Raise a Dead Man: The Mystery of the Knives streaming on Netflix Dec. 12.
