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Originally Posted by TwilightsCall

Spoiler for Van Dine's 17th:

17. A professional criminal must never be shouldered with the guilt of a crime in a detective story. Crimes by housebreakers and bandits are the province of the police departments — not of authors and brilliant amateur detectives. A really fascinating crime is one committed by a pillar of a church, or a spinster noted for her charities.

This doesn't mean that the murderer 'doesn't feel guilt,' it means that the guilty party is not a professional criminal.

In the end I realize that its not really a big deal, and the fact the characters discuss it as the way you interpreted it kind of absolves the error by explaining it to the reader, but I must admit it really did bother me when I was reading it

I had some beef with the way a few of the other Van Dine's were interpreted/used/...ignored, but this is the one that stood out as being incorrect more than just forgotten.

Wow, uh... I think I really, really misinterpreted that rule

I'm not sure how I missed that... but no one ever really pointed that to me out until now, actually. Hmm.

Originally Posted by Captain Bluebeard

My head's a mess right now, so those are the only ones I could think of for the time being. As for how dunnit, I have some ideas but I'll need to ponder over it a little more before putting any of those into words. Oh, and just out of curiosity, do we get to see any red in this EP?

For Forgery, red only shows up in the Tea Party, which is the answer session.