Mix Master Myth Parallels

[David Johnston2]

Originally Posted by Emerald Cat

Actually, I'd play it both ways. Some of the myths are true while others are false. Otherwise, it would be too predictable for the audience.

Well yeah. Harold Wilson wasn't a Soviet agent. There's just a myth that he was.

[fchase8]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

Reading Two Hundred and Twenty One Baker Streets one of the alternate Sherlocks is 1970s Sherlock. You know, the one that solved the Watergate Affair, determined that there was a second gunman on the grassy knoll (and who it was), and figured out that

Spoiler:  

Eilvis faked his death

. One of the differences between period mysteries and mysteries actually written in the period is that the latter are almost entirely oblivious to real-world current events.

It made me wonder what other cases 1970s Sherlock would have worked.

The Tate-Labianca murders.
Someone faking a UFO sighting as cover for government skulduggery
An attempt to frame Harold Wilson as a Soviet agent
Operation Mockingbird: A famous journalist commits murder to try to conceal the fact that he was accepting bribes from the CIA to write slanted stories...

It's a mix master myth parallel because Holmes just isn't in 1970s New York, he's in a setting where a lot of myths from the 60s and 70s are true.

Investigates Son-of-Sam murders (which were in New York).

Symbionese Liberation Army/Patty Hearst.

Jonestown cult.

[Randyman]

Originally Posted by fchase8

Investigates Son-of-Sam murders (which were in New York).

Symbionese Liberation Army/Patty Hearst.

Jonestown cult.

D.B. Cooper

[fchase8]

The seventies actually had a great deal of 'legendary criminal cases', because media was advanced enough that such stories would go viral, but before high-tech solving of such cases.

And there was that whole 'world's going crazy' vibe (said by someone who wasn't there in the seventies).

[Randyman]

Originally Posted by fchase8

The seventies actually had a great deal of 'legendary criminal cases', because media was advanced enough that such stories would go viral, but before high-tech solving of such cases.

And there was that whole 'world's going crazy' vibe (said by someone who wasn't there in the seventies).

I was. A whole generation did go crazy, by the standards of the generations that preceded them, and in a way that was both unprecedented and subsequently unequaled.

[somecallmetim]

Originally Posted by fchase8

Investigates Son-of-Sam murders (which were in New York).

Symbionese Liberation Army/Patty Hearst.

Jonestown cult.

You could put him up against the "mythic" version of the Zodiac killer, who is a manipulative genius with a grand design instead of just a narcissistic psychopath.

[fchase8]

Originally Posted by Randyman

I was. A whole generation did go crazy, by the standards of the generations that preceded them, and in a way that was both unprecedented and subsequently unequaled.

Jimmy Hoffa disappearance.

And find out where Elvis is hiding after faking his own death.

[Phantasm]

Originally Posted by fchase8

Jimmy Hoffa disappearance.

Don't they have Jimmy Hoffa stashed in Warehouse 23's basement? :)

[somecallmetim]

Originally Posted by Phantasm

Don't they have Jimmy Hoffa stashed in Warehouse 23's basement? :)

Given W23's nature, they probably have several to choose from.

[patchwork]

Originally Posted by Phantasm

Don't they have Jimmy Hoffa stashed in Warehouse 23's basement? :)

There's a James Hoffa who's about the right age, but it's the wrong one.