Writer's Block: True Crime

[erastes]

Today is the anniversary of the death of Elizabeth Short, also known as the Black Dahlia. What real-life murder story are you most fascinated by? <input ... > View other answers

 

I wouldn't say "fascinated" but The Princes in the Tower intrigues me and also the death of Christopher Marlowe. Don't suppose most of these mysteries will ever be cleared up.

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[the-sea-to.livejournal.com]

What you blocked on sweetie?

[aunty_marion]

Hee! The 'question' doesn't seem to be at all related to your answer! However, I am mightily amused at the Princes in the Tower being someone's 'trash'.

[the-sea-to.livejournal.com]

Randomly - if you ever need access to any of these as original source:

http://www.arundelcastle.org/_images/Catalogue%20A-S.pdfhttp://www.arundelcastle.org/_images/Catalogue%20A-S.pdf

will try get you there.

I'd suggest that if there was an answer to the princes in the tower, there is a fair chance it would be at school. Catholic repository of knowledge in UK at the time.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

those links don't work.

:(

[erastes.livejournal.com]

no, not blocked. Writer's block is just a meme that's generated by Livejournal (i think)

[kethlenda.livejournal.com]

Hee, I think you may have pasted in the wrong question. (Though the Princes in the Tower could technically be considered a lost item...)

[erastes.livejournal.com]

stupid Writer's Block. Have NO IDEA why it did that.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Grrr. Why does stuff always go wrong? Sorted now.

[the-sea-to.livejournal.com]

that would be because genius here pasted it twice

http://www.arundelcastle.org/_images/Catalogue%20A-S.pdf

[haydenthorne.livejournal.com]

Jack the Ripper murders.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

My mother always said Mary Kelly was a relation, but I don't know - there are millions of Kellys.

[lareinenoire.livejournal.com]

Both of those are on the top of my list, although the fact that my dissertation is tacitly skirting the Princes without actually writing about them helps. I think I'd go insane trying to read all those books that purport to know exactly what happened. I've read the chronicles. Nobody knows.

My pet theory -- TARDIS. It's the answer to everything, really.

[mylodon.livejournal.com]

I'd love to know about Marlowe. A great reckoning in a little room...

[haydenthorne.livejournal.com]

Yikes. The one who got it the worst? :S I wish I knew if we had someone infamous in my family's history. My paternal grandfather was a mayor of a small town, but that was it.

[essayel.livejournal.com]

I'm half way through "Dead Man in Deptford" at the moment and I loved Josephine Tey's take on the Princes in 'The Daughter of Time' but whether we'll ever find the truth of either I doubt.

I'm rather interested in whether the Spandau prisoner really was Rudolf Hess. He was held locally for some years after he flew to the UK, and one of his carers claims that the man in Spandau certainly was NOT Hess. Again I doubt we'll ever know. The Russians aren't telling.

[kcwarwick.livejournal.com]

Don't get me started on Marlowe! I'm currently working on a novel about him. I recommend the Marlowe Society website (the UK one) and Charles Nichol's book 'The Reckoning', which is full of fascinating facts though it comes to no very definite conclusion.