{"id":128,"date":"2006-11-02T07:37:04","date_gmt":"2006-11-02T12:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2006\/11\/02\/mina-9\/"},"modified":"2009-07-05T22:14:57","modified_gmt":"2009-07-06T06:14:57","slug":"mina-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2006\/11\/02\/mina-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Mina"},"content":{"rendered":"<div title=\"Actually 'The Speckled Band' does involve an air vent and Mina probably would have remembered that if she'd thought about it for a minute.\">\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t think private investigators had cars like this,&#8221; says Mina.  His receptionist is driving; they face each other in the back.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The locked-room mystery,&#8221; Inspector Dracula muses, &#8220;is so important to fiction, and so rare in reality, that we must consider this scenario a deliberate recreation.  The first detective story, by Poe, or Conan Doyle&#8217;s &#8216;Speckled Band&#8230;&#8217;  Carr&#8217;s <i>The Hollow Man<\/i> has perhaps the definitive overview, and indeed some of those conceits are more plausible than the book itself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Which one involves the air vent?&#8221; asks Mina tartly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, never mind that,&#8221; says Dracula, &#8220;your &#8216;guard&#8217; has a twin.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t think private investigators had cars like this,&#8221; says Mina. His receptionist is driving; they face each other in the back. &#8220;The locked-room mystery,&#8221; Inspector Dracula muses, &#8220;is so important to fiction, and so rare in reality, that we must consider this scenario a deliberate recreation. The first detective story, by Poe, or Conan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1522,2776],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mina","tag-inspector-dracula","tag-mina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2885,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/2885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}