Question
Witnesses in this short story report hearing one French voice and one voice whose language they cannot agree on. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this early locked room mystery, a short story in which the second voice is revealed to be an animal who murdered Madame L’Espanaye and her daughter Camille.
ANSWER: “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (by Edgar Allan Poe)
[10h] Another candidate for the first locked room mystery is this author’s “Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess.” Dr. Hesselius’s notes reveal the title character to be both Mircalla and Millarca in a book by this author.
ANSWER: Sheridan Le Fanu [or Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu] (The book is Carmilla.)
[10e] A snake is revealed to be the title “Speckled Band” in one of the locked room mysteries featuring this detective created by Arthur Conan Doyle.
ANSWER: Sherlock Holmes [accept either underlined answer]
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Summary
2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | Premiere | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
2023 ARCADIA at RIT | Premiere | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
Stanford A | Berkeley A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |