# The Daily Feud: The Mystery Feud by Elendil's Heir \[Game Over\]

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-the-mystery-feud-by-elendils-heir-game-over/479013>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [December 29, 2008, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-the-mystery-feud-by-elendils-heir-game-over/479013 "2008-12-29T01:25:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-the-mystery-feud-by-elendils-heir-game-over/479013/1 "2008-12-29T01:25:04Z")

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**DO NOT READ THIS THREAD BEFORE YOU POST YOUR ANSWERS**

**Object of the game: Try to think of the most popular answer,** to get the most people matching you. Google or other research is allowed, if you desire. Only answers that are “serious” will be scored. Joke answers will not be considered, as it is not fair to other players.

Scoring - Any answer duplicated by anyone else is worth 100 points divided by the number of entrants. For example: 50 entrant game = 2 pts per answer. If 4 people match that means they each get 8 pts for that answer. No matches = 0 points.

If any of you have ideas for Feuds -_and would like me to score them_- PM me and I’ll get you on [The List.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=10488145#post10488145)

_ **FORMATTING OF ANSWERS IS IMPORTANT!** _

**Write your answers like this** ; Do not repeat the questions, no periods at the end of answers, no spaces between lines, no comments, no fancy list coding. If you need to comment or clarify your answers, do it AFTER the list of answers. Thanks.  
JUST LIKE THIS:

**1. answer \<\<—There is a space after the period!  
2. response  
3. rejoinder**

The game will end either when we have 50 entrants, or at **4:00 PM Central** on Monday, 12/29/08 whichever comes first.

Good luck!

**Don’t use quotes, please! It makes more work for me when some of you do and some of you don’t.**

1. Name a mystery novel.
2. Name a mystery movie, different than the novel above.
3. Name a mystery author or screenwriter.
4. Name a fictional police detective.
5. Name a fictional private detective.
6. Name a noteworthy fictional villain.
7. Name a mystery cliche.
8. Other than the butler, name an unlikely suspect.
9. Name a murder weapon.
10. Name a room in Clue.

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**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-the-mystery-feud-by-elendils-heir-game-over/479013/2 "2008-12-29T01:43:24Z")

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1. And Then There Were None
2. The Thin Man
3. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
4. Adam Dalgelish
5. Sherlock Holmes
6. Moriarty
7. The Butler Did It
8. The maid
9. Knife
10. Dining Room

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**Author:** ![This\_ll\_Do](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/this_ll_do/32/3023_2.png) [@This\_ll\_Do](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/This_ll_Do)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-the-mystery-feud-by-elendils-heir-game-over/479013/3 "2008-12-29T01:47:37Z")

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1. Murder on the Orient Express

2. Citizen Kane

3. Agatha Christie

4. Inspector Lestrade

5. Sherlock Holmes

6. Professor James Moriarty

7. The butler did it

8. The narrator

9. Arsenic

10. Billiard Room

11. He preferred to call himself a “consulting detective.”

12. As in the controversial Christie novel that I don’t want to spoil by naming.

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**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-the-mystery-feud-by-elendils-heir-game-over/479013/4 "2008-12-29T01:56:20Z")

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1. Murder on the Orient Express
2. Evil Under the Sun
3. Agatha Christie
4. Adrian Monk
5. Sam Spade
6. Moriarity
7. locked room murder
8. The jealous ex
9. candlestick
10. The Hall  
1 - The original title was _Murder on the Calais Coach_

10 - right smack in the middle of the board

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**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-the-mystery-feud-by-elendils-heir-game-over/479013/5 "2008-12-29T02:13:54Z")

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1. Murder on the Orient Express
2. The Maltese Falcon
3. Raymond Chandler
4. Lt. Columbo
5. Philip Marlowe
6. Professor Moriarty
7. The butler did it.
8. The detective
9. Gun
10. Library

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-the-mystery-feud-by-elendils-heir-game-over/479013/6 "2008-12-29T02:14:11Z")

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1. _Murder on the Orient Express_

2. _The Seven Percent Solution_

3. Arthur Conan Doyle

4. Insp. G. Lestrade

5. Sherlock Holmes

6. Prof. Moriarty

7. The butler did it!

8. The detective

9. Knife

10. The conservatory

11. Conan Doyle never told us his first name, just the initial!

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**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-the-mystery-feud-by-elendils-heir-game-over/479013/7 "2008-12-29T02:29:11Z")

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1. The Big Sleep
2. Murder on the Orient Express
3. Agatha Christie
4. Joe Friday
5. Philip Marlowe
6. Professor Moriarty
7. Detective gathers suspects together to reveal the killer
8. Femme Fatale
9. Ice pick
10. Library

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**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-the-mystery-feud-by-elendils-heir-game-over/479013/8 "2008-12-29T02:30:07Z")

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1. Murder on the Orient Express (aka Murder in the Calais Coach)
2. Death on the Nile
3. Agatha Christie
4. Lestrade
5. Sherlock Holmes
6. Professor Moriarty
7. The butler as culprit
8. The investigating detective
9. Gun
10. Dining Room

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**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-the-mystery-feud-by-elendils-heir-game-over/479013/9 "2008-12-29T02:30:23Z")

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1. Murder on the Orient Express
2. Murder by Death
3. Agatha Christie
4. Sgt. Joe Friday
5. Adrian Monk
6. Lex Luthor
7. The butler did it
8. The maid
9. Gun
10. Library

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**Author:** ![brownie55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@brownie55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brownie55)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-the-mystery-feud-by-elendils-heir-game-over/479013/10 "2008-12-29T02:39:45Z")

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1. And Then There Were None

2. The Maltese Falcon

3. Agatha Christie

4. Joe Friday

5. Sam Spade

6. Professor Moriarty

7. The Butler did it.

8. The devoted daughter

9. Revolver

10. Library

11. Also Known as Ten Little Indians

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**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-the-mystery-feud-by-elendils-heir-game-over/479013/11 "2008-12-29T02:41:58Z")

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my, my, my. We are a bunch of Agatha Christie fans, aren’t we. She was the first mystery author I ever read, and for a long time, the only one.

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**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-the-mystery-feud-by-elendils-heir-game-over/479013/12 "2008-12-29T02:51:12Z")

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1. Murder on the Orient Express
2. Clue: the Movie
3. Agatha Christie
4. Columbo
5. Sherlock Holmes
6. Professor Moriarty
7. The butler did it.
8. The maid.
9. gun
10. ballroom

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**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-the-mystery-feud-by-elendils-heir-game-over/479013/13 "2008-12-29T02:55:21Z")

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1. And Then There Were None
2. Murder On The Orient Express
3. Agatha Christey
4. Richard Jury
5. Lord Peter Whimsey
6. Moriarty
7. The Butler Did It
8. The Spouse
9. Poison
10. Dining Room

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**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-the-mystery-feud-by-elendils-heir-game-over/479013/14 "2008-12-29T03:03:32Z")

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1. The Hound of the Baskervilles
2. Murder on the Orient Express
3. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
4. Lestrade
5. Sherlock Holmes
6. Moriarity
7. The locked room
8. Maid
9. Knife
10. Library

I wasn’t sure about #8 but decided on that because the help never(well, almost never) ends up being the murderer.

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**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-the-mystery-feud-by-elendils-heir-game-over/479013/15 "2008-12-29T03:05:16Z")

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> [@anyrose](#):
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> my, my, my. We are a bunch of Agatha Christie fans, aren’t we.

Not necessarily. I’m partial to Ellery Queen; never read any Christie so far. I just thought she’d be a popular answer. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-the-mystery-feud-by-elendils-heir-game-over/479013/16 "2008-12-29T03:24:17Z")

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1. The Hound of the Baskervilles
2. Clue
3. Agatha Christie
4. Dick Tracy
5. Sherlock Holmes
6. Moriarty
7. The butler did it
8. the detective
9. knife
10. library

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**Author:** ![Key\_Lime\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/48db29/32.png) [@Key\_Lime\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Key_Lime_Guy)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-the-mystery-feud-by-elendils-heir-game-over/479013/17 "2008-12-29T03:26:41Z")

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1. The Maltese Falcon
2. Rear Window
3. Edgar Allen Poe
4. Columbo
5. Sherlock Holmes
6. Moriarty
7. Fight on top of moving train
8. The detective
9. Gun
10. Library

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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-the-mystery-feud-by-elendils-heir-game-over/479013/18 "2008-12-29T03:45:12Z")

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1. Murder on the Orient Express
2. The Maltese Falcon
3. Agatha Christie
4. Inspector Clouseau
5. Sherlock Holmes
6. Moriarty
7. Red herring
8. Maid
9. Gun
10. Library

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**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-the-mystery-feud-by-elendils-heir-game-over/479013/19 "2008-12-29T04:19:47Z")

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1. Murder on the Orient Express
2. The Maltese Falcon
3. Agatha Christie
4. Joe Friday
5. Sam Spade
6. Moriarty
7. The butler did it
8. The narrator
9. Poison
10. Library

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-the-mystery-feud-by-elendils-heir-game-over/479013/20 "2008-12-29T04:21:21Z")

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1. Murder on the Orient Express
2. The Maltese Falcon
3. Agatha Christie
4. Columbo
5. Sherlock Holmes
6. Professor Moriarty
7. “The butler did it”
8. The detective (although that did happen, in Christie’s “The Mousetrap” and “Curtain”)
9. Pistol
10. Library

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