Actually, twins have different finger prints. They could totally tell if they were the same person. Of course… that might not actually be useful, just more confusing.
You’re right. 🙂 I’m operating under the assumption that Detective Strait is holding his cards close to his chest. He’s puzzled by the whole damned thing, so he’s going for Occam’s Razor, believing the fingerprint thing will be resolved later.
Though this is me reading between the lines (which I should never encourage folks to do, the narrative should speak for itself, and in this case it clearly didn’t), I can suggest, by way of explanation, that Strait would think that Charlie has murdered his brother and taken his place. (IE, Charlie murdered his brother, who had a teaching certificate, and then was sent to jail after replacing him, and they haven’t gotten his fingerprints back yet).
But that’s just me making excuses for bad behavior as a writer. Good catch! I may modify that line for the trade because of this, and if so, you’ll get a credit and a thanks!
I’d think that they’d assume Charlie-with-the-teaching-certificate is the murderer. They probably didn’t bother to check the copse’s fingerprints to see if they matched, so no problem there.
Though the fingerprint issue is true, it didn’t confuse me. Reading a fictional story, I know that some things will be off-kilter. If I can believe that a rock has the power to open doorways to other universe’s, then a fingerprint issue is, well, not an issue.
I have started outlining a book and while deciding what kind of story I wanted to write, I thought of all the research that goes into writing a fictional true-to-life story. When writing a fictional, out-of-this-world story, the author’s imagination is the research.
Poetic license?
I’m not trolling, trying to start an argument. I’m only putting my opinion out. However, opinions are like a***oles, everyone’s got one and they all stink and no one wants someone else’s shoved in their face.
Happy reading
I doubt anybody’ll see that as starting an argument. Don’t sweat it. 🙂
I see both sides of things. As the writer, the fingerprint thing annoys me, because I wish I had thought it through better, but I can see letting it go, too. There is no right way to view a thing, I suppose, and for some people inconsistency is the deal breaker, others subject matter, etc. All are valid, I think.
It’s a lot more difficult to look over without the ability to just jump to the next page and move on, and when this came out, no one could, heh.
Actually, twins have different finger prints. They could totally tell if they were the same person. Of course… that might not actually be useful, just more confusing.
You’re right. 🙂 I’m operating under the assumption that Detective Strait is holding his cards close to his chest. He’s puzzled by the whole damned thing, so he’s going for Occam’s Razor, believing the fingerprint thing will be resolved later.
Though this is me reading between the lines (which I should never encourage folks to do, the narrative should speak for itself, and in this case it clearly didn’t), I can suggest, by way of explanation, that Strait would think that Charlie has murdered his brother and taken his place. (IE, Charlie murdered his brother, who had a teaching certificate, and then was sent to jail after replacing him, and they haven’t gotten his fingerprints back yet).
But that’s just me making excuses for bad behavior as a writer. Good catch! I may modify that line for the trade because of this, and if so, you’ll get a credit and a thanks!
I’d think that they’d assume Charlie-with-the-teaching-certificate is the murderer. They probably didn’t bother to check the copse’s fingerprints to see if they matched, so no problem there.
Though the fingerprint issue is true, it didn’t confuse me. Reading a fictional story, I know that some things will be off-kilter. If I can believe that a rock has the power to open doorways to other universe’s, then a fingerprint issue is, well, not an issue.
I have started outlining a book and while deciding what kind of story I wanted to write, I thought of all the research that goes into writing a fictional true-to-life story. When writing a fictional, out-of-this-world story, the author’s imagination is the research.
Poetic license?
I’m not trolling, trying to start an argument. I’m only putting my opinion out. However, opinions are like a***oles, everyone’s got one and they all stink and no one wants someone else’s shoved in their face.
Happy reading
I doubt anybody’ll see that as starting an argument. Don’t sweat it. 🙂
I see both sides of things. As the writer, the fingerprint thing annoys me, because I wish I had thought it through better, but I can see letting it go, too. There is no right way to view a thing, I suppose, and for some people inconsistency is the deal breaker, others subject matter, etc. All are valid, I think.
It’s a lot more difficult to look over without the ability to just jump to the next page and move on, and when this came out, no one could, heh.