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The Macbeth Murder Mystery

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"The Macbeth Murder Mystery" is a short story by James Thurber. An experienced consumer of detective fiction reads Macbeth for the first time, and comes to the conclusion that Macbeth can't really have killed Duncan, because the first obvious suspect always turns out to be innocent. But if it wasn't Macbeth, who was it?Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })
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Everyone Is a Suspect
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Everyone Is a Suspect: The story ends with the Narrator announcing that he's going to tackle Hamlet next. "But who do you suspect?" "Everybody."
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Funny Foreigner: There are two examples: A Shout-Out to Hercule Poirot, a fictional detective who invokes this trope to hide his cunning as a detective, and played straight with the Reader (the Narrator places his tale in an "hotel in the English lake country" and calls the Reader an American Lady nine times), a silly woman who insists on applying Detective Drama tropes to Macbeth making a fool of herself and... What do you mean that Dumbass Has a Point??
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Dead Person Impersonation: In the theory the Reader settles on, Lady Macbeth's father killed Duncan, and hearing someone coming, hid in the bed to make whoever-it-was think Duncan was still alive. It was Lady Macbeth's who later remarks that Duncan "resembled my father as he slept".
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Never the Obvious Suspect / int_ef627676
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