# Bakers Dozen **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 4, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173 "2010-08-04T17:56:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2964
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2018, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/59267 "2018-05-28T00:20:55Z")
Continuing a theme, 13 more ways a person is killed in a murder mystery, with name, method, and work. I forgot to mention, no more poisons, please. 1. Pete Drossos is run over by a car in The Golden Spiders by Rex Stout. 2. Stephen Norton is shot precisely in the center of his forehead in Curtain by Agatha Christie 3. Erik & Lida Knudsen have their throats slashed in See Also Murder by Larry D. Sweazy 4. Patrick Maloney is killed with a frozen leg of lamb by his wife Mary in Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl. (The murder “weapon” is later cooked and eaten by the police investigators.) ---
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Continuing a theme, 13 more ways a person is killed in a murder mystery, with name, method, and work. I forgot to mention, no more poisons, please. 1. Pete Drossos is run over by a car in The Golden Spiders by Rex Stout. 2. Stephen Norton is shot precisely in the center of his forehead in Curtain by Agatha Christie 3. Erik & Lida Knudsen have their throats slashed in See Also Murder by Larry D. Sweazy 4. Patrick Maloney is killed with a frozen leg of lamb by his wife Mary in Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl. (The murder “weapon” is later cooked and eaten by the police investigators.) 5. Maurice Questing is lured into a boiling thermal mud pool in Colour Scheme by Ngaio Marsh ---
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Continuing a theme, 13 more ways a person is killed in a murder mystery, with name, method, and work. I forgot to mention, no more poisons, please. 1. Pete Drossos is run over by a car in The Golden Spiders by Rex Stout. 2. Stephen Norton is shot precisely in the center of his forehead in Curtain by Agatha Christie 3. Erik & Lida Knudsen have their throats slashed in See Also Murder by Larry D. Sweazy 4. Patrick Maloney is killed with a frozen leg of lamb by his wife Mary in Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl. (The murder “weapon” is later cooked and eaten by the police investigators.) 5. Maurice Questing is lured into a boiling thermal mud pool in Colour Scheme by Ngaio Marsh 6. Sir Charles Baskerville suffers a heart attack from extreme fright in The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ---
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Continuing a theme, 13 more ways a person is killed in a murder mystery, with name, method, and work. I forgot to mention, no more poisons, please. 1. Pete Drossos is run over by a car in The Golden Spiders by Rex Stout. 2. Stephen Norton is shot precisely in the center of his forehead in Curtain by Agatha Christie 3. Erik & Lida Knudsen have their throats slashed in See Also Murder by Larry D. Sweazy 4. Patrick Maloney is killed with a frozen leg of lamb by his wife Mary in Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl. (The murder “weapon” is later cooked and eaten by the police investigators.) 5. Maurice Questing is lured into a boiling thermal mud pool in Colour Scheme by Ngaio Marsh 6. Sir Charles Baskerville suffers a heart attack from extreme fright in The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 7. Owen Jennison has a _droud_ (a device which delivers stimulation directly to the brains pleasure center) plugged into his head, and dies of self-neglect and starvation in “Death by Ecstasy” by Larry Niven. ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2018, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/59271 "2018-05-28T04:31:36Z")
Continuing a theme, 13 more ways a person is killed in a murder mystery, with name, method, and work. I forgot to mention, no more poisons, please. 1. Pete Drossos is run over by a car in The Golden Spiders by Rex Stout. 2. Stephen Norton is shot precisely in the center of his forehead in Curtain by Agatha Christie 3. Erik & Lida Knudsen have their throats slashed in See Also Murder by Larry D. Sweazy 4. Patrick Maloney is killed with a frozen leg of lamb by his wife Mary in Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl. (The murder “weapon” is later cooked and eaten by the police investigators.) 5. Maurice Questing is lured into a boiling thermal mud pool in Colour Scheme by Ngaio Marsh 6. Sir Charles Baskerville suffers a heart attack from extreme fright in The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 7. Owen Jennison has a droud (a device which delivers stimulation directly to the brains pleasure center) plugged into his head, and dies of self-neglect and starvation in “Death by Ecstasy” by Larry Niven. 8. Victor Dean falls down a staircase after being hit in the head by a catapult and his “lucky” scarab, in _Murder Must Advertise_ by Dorothy L. Sayers ---
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Continuing a theme, 13 more ways a person is killed in a murder mystery, with name, method, and work. I forgot to mention, no more poisons, please. 1. Pete Drossos is run over by a car in The Golden Spiders by Rex Stout. 2. Stephen Norton is shot precisely in the center of his forehead in Curtain by Agatha Christie 3. Erik & Lida Knudsen have their throats slashed in See Also Murder by Larry D. Sweazy 4. Patrick Maloney is killed with a frozen leg of lamb by his wife Mary in Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl. (The murder “weapon” is later cooked and eaten by the police investigators.) 5. Maurice Questing is lured into a boiling thermal mud pool in Colour Scheme by Ngaio Marsh 6. Sir Charles Baskerville suffers a heart attack from extreme fright in The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 7. Owen Jennison has a droud (a device which delivers stimulation directly to the brains pleasure center) plugged into his head, and dies of self-neglect and starvation in “Death by Ecstasy” by Larry Niven. 8. Victor Dean falls down a staircase after being hit in the head by a catapult and his “lucky” scarab, in _Murder Must Advertise_ by Dorothy L. Sayers 9. Archibald Abernethy is strangled with a silk cord in _Cat of Many Tails_ by Ellery Queen. ---
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Continuing a theme, 13 more ways a person is killed in a murder mystery, with name, method, and work. I forgot to mention, no more poisons, please. 1. Pete Drossos is run over by a car in The Golden Spiders by Rex Stout. 2. Stephen Norton is shot precisely in the center of his forehead in Curtain by Agatha Christie. 3. Erik & Lida Knudsen have their throats slashed in See Also Murder by Larry D. Sweazy 4. Patrick Maloney is killed with a frozen leg of lamb by his wife Mary in Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl. (The murder “weapon” is later cooked and eaten by the police investigators.) 5. Maurice Questing is lured into a boiling thermal mud pool in Colour Scheme by Ngaio Marsh 6. Sir Charles Baskerville suffers a heart attack from extreme fright in The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 7. Owen Jennison has a droud (a device which delivers stimulation directly to the brains pleasure center) plugged into his head, and dies of self-neglect and starvation in “Death by Ecstasy” by Larry Niven. 8. Victor Dean falls down a staircase after being hit in the head by a catapult and his “lucky” scarab, in Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers 9. Archibald Abernethy is strangled with a silk cord in Cat of Many Tails by Ellery Queen. 10. Mr. Anstley is beheaded and his head placed on a phonograph record (“Hot Potato”) on an actively working turntable inside a locked room in The Long, Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams. ---
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Continuing a theme, 13 more ways a person is killed in a murder mystery, with name, method, and work. I forgot to mention, no more poisons, please. 1. Pete Drossos is run over by a car in The Golden Spiders by Rex Stout. 2. Stephen Norton is shot precisely in the center of his forehead in Curtain by Agatha Christie. 3. Erik & Lida Knudsen have their throats slashed in See Also Murder by Larry D. Sweazy 4. Patrick Maloney is killed with a frozen leg of lamb by his wife Mary in Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl. (The murder “weapon” is later cooked and eaten by the police investigators.) 5. Maurice Questing is lured into a boiling thermal mud pool in Colour Scheme by Ngaio Marsh 6. Sir Charles Baskerville suffers a heart attack from extreme fright in The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 7. Owen Jennison has a droud (a device which delivers stimulation directly to the brains pleasure center) plugged into his head, and dies of self-neglect and starvation in “Death by Ecstasy” by Larry Niven. 8. Victor Dean falls down a staircase after being hit in the head by a catapult and his “lucky” scarab, in Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers 9. Archibald Abernethy is strangled with a silk cord in Cat of Many Tails by Ellery Queen. 10. Mr. Anstley is beheaded and his head placed on a phonograph record (“Hot Potato”) on an actively working turntable inside a locked room in The Long, Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams. 11. Lefranco Casetti AKA Samuel Ratchett, stabbed by a “jury” of multiple assailants, in Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express ---
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Continuing a theme, 13 more ways a person is killed in a murder mystery, with name, method, and work. I forgot to mention, no more poisons, please. 1. Pete Drossos is run over by a car in The Golden Spiders by Rex Stout. 2. Stephen Norton is shot precisely in the center of his forehead in Curtain by Agatha Christie. 3. Erik & Lida Knudsen have their throats slashed in See Also Murder by Larry D. Sweazy 4. Patrick Maloney is killed with a frozen leg of lamb by his wife Mary in Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl. (The murder “weapon” is later cooked and eaten by the police investigators.) 5. Maurice Questing is lured into a boiling thermal mud pool in Colour Scheme by Ngaio Marsh 6. Sir Charles Baskerville suffers a heart attack from extreme fright in The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 7. Owen Jennison has a droud (a device which delivers stimulation directly to the brains pleasure center) plugged into his head, and dies of self-neglect and starvation in “Death by Ecstasy” by Larry Niven. 8. Victor Dean falls down a staircase after being hit in the head by a catapult and his “lucky” scarab, in Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers 9. Archibald Abernethy is strangled with a silk cord in Cat of Many Tails by Ellery Queen. 10. Mr. Anstley is beheaded and his head placed on a phonograph record (“Hot Potato”) on an actively working turntable inside a locked room in The Long, Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams. 11. Lefranco Casetti AKA Samuel Ratchett, stabbed by a “jury” of multiple assailants, in Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express 12. Dr. Nel Apgar, killed by a ricocheting energy beam, Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “A Matter of Perspective” ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/59276 "2018-05-29T04:59:40Z")
Continuing a theme, 13 more ways a person is killed in a murder mystery, with name, method, and work. I forgot to mention, no more poisons, please. 1. Pete Drossos is run over by a car in The Golden Spiders by Rex Stout. 2. Stephen Norton is shot precisely in the center of his forehead in Curtain by Agatha Christie. 3. Erik & Lida Knudsen have their throats slashed in See Also Murder by Larry D. Sweazy 4. Patrick Maloney is killed with a frozen leg of lamb by his wife Mary in Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl. (The murder “weapon” is later cooked and eaten by the police investigators.) 5. Maurice Questing is lured into a boiling thermal mud pool in Colour Scheme by Ngaio Marsh 6. Sir Charles Baskerville suffers a heart attack from extreme fright in The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 7. Owen Jennison has a droud (a device which delivers stimulation directly to the brains pleasure center) plugged into his head, and dies of self-neglect and starvation in “Death by Ecstasy” by Larry Niven. 8. Victor Dean falls down a staircase after being hit in the head by a catapult and his “lucky” scarab, in Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers 9. Archibald Abernethy is strangled with a silk cord in Cat of Many Tails by Ellery Queen. 10. Mr. Anstley is beheaded and his head placed on a phonograph record (“Hot Potato”) on an actively working turntable inside a locked room in The Long, Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams. 11. Lefranco Casetti AKA Samuel Ratchett, stabbed by a “jury” of multiple assailants, in Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express 12. Dr. Nel Apgar, killed by a ricocheting energy beam, Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “A Matter of Perspective” 13. Killed by a miniature black hole, “The Hole Man” by Larry Niven People who got replaced by another actor in the Marvel movies 1. Terrence Howard was replaced by Don Cheadle as James Rhodes ---
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People who got replaced by another actor in the Marvel movies 1. Terrence Howard was replaced by Don Cheadle as James Rhodes 2. Eric Bana was replaced by Edward Norton was replaced by Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner Is the Eric Bana movie included in the MCU? I can never remember. ---
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> [@tripthicket](#): > > Is the Eric Bana movie included in the MCU? I can never remember. To keep thirteen items within reach, I’ll accept any Marvel movie since 2000. ---
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People who got replaced by another actor in the Marvel movies 1. Terrence Howard was replaced by Don Cheadle as James Rhodes 2. Eric Bana was replaced by Edward Norton as Bruce Banner Redoing my entry so as to use only one replacement, not two. ---
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People who got replaced by another actor in the Marvel movies 1. Terrence Howard was replaced by Don Cheadle as James Rhodes 2. Eric Bana was replaced by Edward Norton as Bruce Banner 3. Howard Stark has been portrayed by three actors: Gerard Sanders in a slideshow memorial in the first _Iron Man_, John Slattery in _Iron Man 2_ and _Ant-Man_, and Dominic Cooper as a younger Howard Stark in _The First Avenger_ and _Agent Carter_. ---
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People who got replaced by another actor in the Marvel movies 1. Terrence Howard was replaced by Don Cheadle as James Rhodes 2. Eric Bana was replaced by Edward Norton as Bruce Banner 3. Howard Stark has been portrayed by three actors: Gerard Sanders in a slideshow memorial in the first Iron Man, John Slattery in Iron Man 2 and Ant-Man, and Dominic Cooper as a younger Howard Stark in The First Avenger and Agent Carter. 4. Red Skull played by Hugo Weaving in Captain America: The First Avenger and by Ross Marquand in Avengers: Infinity War. Spoilers! ---
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People who got replaced by another actor in the Marvel movies 1. Terrence Howard was replaced by Don Cheadle as James Rhodes 2. Eric Bana was replaced by Edward Norton as Bruce Banner 3. Howard Stark has been portrayed by three actors: Gerard Sanders in a slideshow memorial in the first Iron Man, John Slattery in Iron Man 2 and Ant-Man, and Dominic Cooper as a younger Howard Stark in The First Avenger and Agent Carter. 4. Red Skull played by Hugo Weaving in Captain America: The First Avenger and by Ross Marquand in Avengers: Infinity War. 5. Edward Norton was replaced by Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner. ---
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People who got replaced by another actor in the Marvel movies 1. Terrence Howard was replaced by Don Cheadle as James Rhodes 2. Eric Bana was replaced by Edward Norton as Bruce Banner 3. Howard Stark has been portrayed by three actors: Gerard Sanders in a slideshow memorial in the first Iron Man, John Slattery in Iron Man 2 and Ant-Man, and Dominic Cooper as a younger Howard Stark in The First Avenger and Agent Carter. 4. Red Skull played by Hugo Weaving in Captain America: The First Avenger and by Ross Marquand in Avengers: Infinity War. 5. Edward Norton was replaced by Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner. 6. Damion Poitier played Thanos in the post-credits scene of The Avengers; Josh Brolin played him in Avengers: Infinity War ---
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People who got replaced by another actor in the Marvel movies 1. Terrence Howard was replaced by Don Cheadle as James Rhodes 2. Eric Bana was replaced by Edward Norton as Bruce Banner 3. Howard Stark has been portrayed by three actors: Gerard Sanders in a slideshow memorial in the first Iron Man, John Slattery in Iron Man 2 and Ant-Man, and Dominic Cooper as a younger Howard Stark in The First Avenger and Agent Carter. 4. Red Skull played by Hugo Weaving in Captain America: The First Avenger and by Ross Marquand in Avengers: Infinity War. 5. Edward Norton was replaced by Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner. 6. Damion Poitier played Thanos in the post-credits scene of The Avengers; Josh Brolin played him in Avengers: Infinity War 7. Zachary Levi replaced Josh Dallas as Fandral in the Thor franchise. ---
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People who got replaced by another actor in the Marvel movies 1. Terrence Howard was replaced by Don Cheadle as James Rhodes 2. Eric Bana was replaced by Edward Norton as Bruce Banner 3. Howard Stark has been portrayed by three actors: Gerard Sanders in a slideshow memorial in the first Iron Man, John Slattery in Iron Man 2 and Ant-Man, and Dominic Cooper as a younger Howard Stark in The First Avenger and Agent Carter. 4. Red Skull played by Hugo Weaving in Captain America: The First Avenger and by Ross Marquand in Avengers: Infinity War. 5. Edward Norton was replaced by Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner. 6. Damion Poitier played Thanos in the post-credits scene of The Avengers; Josh Brolin played him in Avengers: Infinity War 7. Zachary Levi replaced Josh Dallas as Fandral in the Thor franchise. 8. Tobey Maguire was replaced by Andrew Garfield and then Garfield was replaced by Tom Holland as Spider-Man. ---
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People who got replaced by another actor in the Marvel movies 1. Terrence Howard was replaced by Don Cheadle as James Rhodes 2. Eric Bana was replaced by Edward Norton as Bruce Banner 3. Howard Stark has been portrayed by three actors: Gerard Sanders in a slideshow memorial in the first Iron Man, John Slattery in Iron Man 2 and Ant-Man, and Dominic Cooper as a younger Howard Stark in The First Avenger and Agent Carter. 4. Red Skull played by Hugo Weaving in Captain America: The First Avenger and by Ross Marquand in Avengers: Infinity War. 5. Edward Norton was replaced by Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner. 6. Damion Poitier played Thanos in the post-credits scene of The Avengers; Josh Brolin played him in Avengers: Infinity War 7. Zachary Levi replaced Josh Dallas as Fandral in the Thor franchise. 8. Tobey Maguire was replaced by Andrew Garfield and then Garfield was replaced by Tom Holland as Spider-Man. 9. Rosemary Harris, Sally Field, and Marisa Tomei have all played Aunt May. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=2963) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=2965)