Murder Most Foul
I have, in my time, smothered, knifed, strangled, hanged, shot, poisoned and bludgeoned them to death.I have injected air bubbles into their arteries, dropped them into cellars to starve to death, hired killers to see them off, set up fake suicides, and now I’ve run out of ideas.
I still need to kill off between four and six characters over the space of two books, ideally using ways that you or I could do, or for that matter solve, without needing fantastic skills, special equipment, or untraceable poisons distilled from a mushroom found only in one acre of the Amazon forest.
Common or garden murders, tricky to solve, easy to achieve either remotely or without getting spattered and therefore instantly spotted. Easy.
I got a couple of excellent suggestions and a couple of suggestions I suspect were taking the Michael when I raised this briefly in another blog
but you know what, you ever wanted to murder someone, now's your chance. 
Comments (121)
What do thistles do? I've learned what thistles look like
Motive. Greed, mainly (thinks back rapidly) yeah, one sociopath (two, come to think of it - uhoh) but nearly all the others wanted something and had to get rid of the person in the way first. Otherwise a few for revenge. Does one murder for any other reason?
(Foxgloves??? they look like bells!)
And also mercy killing
Slurry tank or having a couple of round bales falling on someone should do the trick as well.
Why would one kill for love? Sounds a bit counter-productive.
I'm nearly always gone for crimes which can be done indoors. This slurry or hay bales stuff sounds like I'm going to have to send the kiddies out into the drizzle.
Or it could also be blackmail ?
What about during sleepwalking?
Also killing the wrong person when an intruder is in the house?
I know it is a plot that was used before but it simply is a great idea - 2 strangers meet on a train and fantasize about killing their partner. Nobody knows they know each other and they kill the other person's partner - police are stumped for a motive.
the problem is I have to reverse-engineer it so that I can slot in the red herrings, the murderer must murder on purpose, and the kiddies (who, only fair to say, are all around my age, and the first person to say oh, ancient then, becomes the first victim
But yup, I'm a bit afraid myself. Like Indie Jones in that pit with snakes
You could put poison or acid in an asthma inhaler?
isare from Irelandgetting old, i think
Put the car in reverse instead of park when dropping them off, and then back up when they get out. You'll get them with the door, and if the wheels turned the right way should be able to manage to run them over.
Scenic overlook and a timely shove.
Take em for a hike, bashed em with a rock, claim an angry ram got them.
Dip their bagpipe reed in poison.(reeds are held in the mouth to moisten them.) Maybe a lethal dose of LSD? is there such a thing?
I like the reed one though.
We could use PAC's rat pee on the reed
A colaborative killing
A gruesome man after my own heartv
Stay Blessed Happy and Healthy
Map, I might be able to rent a chainsaw but where the hell does one buy barrels of acid?