Case File #: 0023
The Crime: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
The Perp: Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
Classification: (defies classification)
The Weapons: manky dreadfuls, katana swords, Brown Bess muskets, daggers, outdated social exigencies
The Victims: Jane Austen
The Accessories: hoards of British undead, aka “manky dreadfuls,” aka “unmentionables,” aka “the stricken”
Violations:
Mr. Darcy is rendered not unlovable but awkward by his [...]
Case File #: 00018
The Perp: Mitchell, Margaret
The Crime: Gone With the Wind
Classification: American Literature
The Weapons: Antebellum nostalgia, plucky women.
The Victims:
Scarlett O’Hara - Hampton -Booth - Butler - painfully selfish, driven woman who vows to see her childhood estate restored to its old glory after Union soldiers destroy it. She will not let her husbands, children, [...]
Case File #: 00008
The Perp: Leroux, Gaston
The Crime: The Phantom of the Opera
Classification: Classic Romance
The Victims:
Erik: The Opera Ghost, “king of stranglers, prince of conjurors,” demigod and siren, monster and lowest of the low. Oh yes, and he’s unspeakably ugly.
Christine Daaé: an opera singer. A feeble-minded, silly little fool; unworthy object of the [...]