Knots

The Alphabet in Crime Fiction - The concept was started by Kerrie at Mysteries in Paradise. This week's letter is the letter K.

Here are the rules: By Friday of each week participants try to write a blog post about crime fiction related to the letter of the week. Your post MUST be related to either the first letter of a book's title, the first letter of an author's first name, or the first letter of the author's surname, or even maybe a crime fiction "topic". But above all, it has to be crime fiction. You could write a review, or a bio of an author, so long as it fits the rules somehow.

KNOT ANALYSIS

What is it? Solving crimes which involve the tying of knots and the use of ropes and cordage

Did you know you can sometimes catch the killer based on how a knot was tied?
Did you know there are thousands of ways to tie a knot?
Did you know there are only a few experts worldwide contribuiting to solving crimes which involve the tying of knots?

Here are some interesting websites about it:

• http://blog.forensicscience.ufl.edu/2012/06/19/untying-the-knots/
• http://www.forensic-knots.co.uk/references.htm
• http://www.forensic-knots.co.uk/index.htm

What do you think, could you catch a killer based on a knot analysis?

Also, authors I want to check out that start with the Letter K:

KERRY GREENWOOD

Kerry Greenwood is an author and solicitor from Melbourne, Australia. She has written many plays and books, most notably a string of historical detective novels centred on the character of Phryne Fisher. She writes mysteries, science-fiction, historical fiction, and children's stories, as well as plays.

Cocaine Blues - this is where it all started! The first classic Phryne Fisher mystery, featuring our delectable heroine, cocaine, communism and adventure. Phryne leaves the tedium of English high society for Melbourne, Australia, and never looks back.

The London season is in full fling at the end of the 1920s, but the Honorable Phryne Fisher--she of the green-grey eyes, diamant garters and outfits that should not be sprung suddenly on those of nervous dispositions--is rapidly tiring of the tedium of arranging flowers, making polite conversations with retired colonels, and dancing with weak-chinned men. Instead, Phryne decides it might be rather amusing to try her hand at being a lady detective in Melbourne, Australia.

Almost immediately from the time she books into the Windsor Hotel, Phryne is embroiled in mystery: poisoned wives, cocaine smuggling rings, corrupt cops and communism--not to mention erotic encounters with the beautiful Russian dancer, Sasha de Lisse--until her adventure reaches its steamy end in the Turkish baths of Little Lonsdale Street.

Sources: Wikipedia and Amazon.com
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