why don't more authors kill with undercooked food?

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VampireLily

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This post reminds me of something off-topic. I think a character in some novel killed someone with a gun which fired bullets of ice, making the gun impossible to trace and the murder weapon impossible to identify.

guns retain so much heat how would the bullets not melt? (asks the chick who knows nothing about guns)
 

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I saw the film first, in the late eighties. I picked up the whole set of books (five total) from a thriftstore shortly after that. They were sappy and like a soap opera but still fun in a Peyton Place kind of way. :laugh:
I remember reading a lot of pap when I was 14 or so - Jacqueline Susanne - Valley of the Dolls, Frank Yerby melodrama novels (junk like that).

I tried to read the first Flowers in the Attic book when I was in early 20s but I remember commenting on how improbable the story was - some story about how their parents were killed, I think? I just could not believe it.

When I was in the Horror section of Value Village this past weekend, you should have seen the endless copies of V.C. Andrews books! :crushed: on a shelf above Ann Rice and Stephen King! :nope:
 

mstay

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You stop that!
I once rinsed spaghetti sauce off of some ground beef and reused it for stroganoff - but I didn't have any cream of mushroom soup for the stroganoff, so I substituted French onion dip. Then I cooked the green beans with vinegar instead of the Italian dressing because I didn't have the Italian dressing. All of this insanity in the same meal. You should have seen his face. This was way early in our marriage -like 2 or 3 weeks into it, and he's still scared of me.

I was reading this hoping to see what you added to salvage the meal. But no. :icon_eek:
 

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I remember reading a lot of pap when I was 14 or so - Jacqueline Susanne - Valley of the Dolls, Frank Yerby melodrama novels (junk like that).

I tried to read the first Flowers in the Attic book when I was in early 20s but I remember commenting on how improbable the story was - some story about how their parents were killed, I think? I just could not believe it.

When I was in the Horror section of Value Village this past weekend, you should have seen the endless copies of V.C. Andrews books! :crushed: on a shelf above Ann Rice and Stephen King! :nope:

I loved Valley of the Dolls.

Flowers in the Attic was OK. I was very young when I read it. There were 3 or 4 books in the series, then she started a new series and it was pretty much the same. Not sure how many series she wrote, but each time I tried, it was like it was the same story, in the way Hatlequin Romances are. ( to me anyway).
 

HPMcClendon

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guns retain so much heat how would the bullets not melt? (asks the chick who knows nothing about guns)

You would most likely need to use an air gun. The bigger issue would be the density of the ice. It would be likely it would shatter before entering the skin or at least be broken down before entering enough to cause much damage. You'd have better luck with something more dense than water, like blood. This is partially explored in an episode of Bones. Lol. Neither are a good choice of weapon but the show was right about the density of water and how fragile ice can be. I suppose a number of things could be used; Plasma, fatty tissue, cartilage.. depending on your accuracy it could go unnoticed in the remains. Even food, spoiled or otherwise if shot through vital organs and into the stomach and just the right angle, speed, and strength. But when you have to be so precise there is a lot of room for error.