The Boddy in the Snowbank [NOOK Book]

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Overview

Just for fun... this short story based around the whodunit game Cluedo/Clue was written as a guest post for the blog 7criminalminds in January 2011

The prompt was: “The Clue characters are locked in a winter lodge. Mr. Boddy is found dead in a snowdrift with no visible signs of trauma. Who did it and how do you prove it using just the things in the lodge?”

This is Mr. Boddy's faithful retainer, Blanche White's recollection of the events of the fatal night, as told to police detective Bruno Gray.

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Overview

Just for fun... this short story based around the whodunit game Cluedo/Clue was written as a guest post for the blog 7criminalminds in January 2011

The prompt was: “The Clue characters are locked in a winter lodge. Mr. Boddy is found dead in a snowdrift with no visible signs of trauma. Who did it and how do you prove it using just the things in the lodge?”

This is Mr. Boddy's faithful retainer, Blanche White's recollection of the events of the fatal night, as told to police detective Bruno Gray.

I do not own the game Cluedo/Clue, and I am not in any way affiliated with Hasbro, the publisher of the game. I just borrowed the characters to have some fun.

Product Details

  • BN ID: 2940032889601
  • Publisher: Jenna Bennett, via Smashwords
  • Publication date: 11/23/2011
  • Sold by: SMASHWORDS - EBKS
  • Format: eBook
  • Sales rank: 16,099
  • File size: 94 KB

Meet the Author

Jenna Bennett AKA Jennie Bentley is the New York Times bestselling author of the Do It Yourself home renovation mysteries from Berkley Prime Crime, as well as of the Savannah Martin Southern Real Estate mysteries. A former Realtor® and home renovator, she lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with a husband and two boys, a hyperactive dog, a killer parakeet, two goldfish and two African Dwarf frogs. A native of Norway, she's spent the past twenty years in the US, and still hasn't been able to kick her native accent. You will not, however, notice it when you're reading her books.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 24, 2012

    To call this a short story is an understatement. It's beyond sh

    To call this a short story is an understatement. It's beyond short and it's hardly a story. Thank goodness it was free. Not worth the effort. It could have been a story, however, there was no detecting. Just the person who done it telling you (the reader) they done it and sadly, I had already figured that out.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 25, 2012

    Eh

    Does not live up to the beloved childhood game or the film. I've no desire to keep this. Discarding here I come!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 9, 2012

    This was certainly different. Good but different.

    I never thought of the game clue like that.

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    Posted April 1, 2012

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