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Originally Posted by Will Wright
The Burning Court is probably what influenced Umineko the most, though I think that The Hollow Man and its speeches about locked rooms had some influence as well.
Which reminds me, am I the only one who thinks that the red text is somewhat like the way certain clues are handled in Ellery Queen novels?
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Sticking to the Carr tangent, wasn't it
The Nine Wrong Answers where he did a lot of convention-discussion and wrong-answer-analysis in footnotes?
I can easily see the colored text being like that. Imagine for instance that you found a manuscript entitled
Turn of the Golden Witch which contained, in part, text written in red ink, and a footnote instruction that you should treat all text in red as true. Such a classic mystery could easily exist (and I'm sure plenty in that basic vein do exist).