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Kill Your Darlings - Team MbD / Lillelara / TA: Summary of the Team's Additional Cards & Points Claimed -- UPDATED

Lillelara:

* Severus Snape as a victim from the red game play. Book read: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. => 10 points

* Green Dragon Pub as a crime scene from the yellow game play. Book read: Cocaine Blues. => 10 points

 

=> 20 extra points

 

 

Themis-Athena:

* Val McDermid: The Distant Echo => Suspect: Arthur Conan Doyle (genre: mystery) - Red Round => 10 points

* Agatha Christie: Murder Is Easy => Victim: Atticus Finch (book with a person of strong moral character; author’s last name begins with a letter in "FINCH") - Yellow Round => 10 points

* J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix  => Victim: Katniss Everdene (genre: YA) - Red Round => 10 points

* J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince => Crime Scene: Pemberley (title contains all letters in "PRIDE") - Red Round => 10 points

* J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows => Crime Scene: The Dark Tower (genre: fantasy) - Yellow Round => 10 points

* Juli Zeh: Unterleuten => Crime Scene: Watts, L.A. (one of the book's POV characters wears a blue dress at the village assembly that sets in motion the book’s major course of events) - Yellow Round => 10 points

* Werner Böcking: Von Köln zum Meer => Crime Scene: Orient Express (a book that deals with people traveling) - Red Round => 10 points

* Dennis McCarthy & June Schlueter: "A Brief Discourse of Rebellion & Rebels" by George North => Cause of Death: shot with bow and arrow (title starts with a letter in "BOW" / "ARROW") - Yellow Round => 10 points

 

=> 80 extra points

 

 

Murder by Death:

I think MbD's "extra books for extra points" posting is a work in progress; I'll update the totals after the end of the game.  Based on the team's discussions and her blog posts, here's what we've got so far (MbD, please correct me if any of the below is wrong):

 

Updated on the basis of MbD's wrap-up post:

 

* Mitch Silver: The Book Worm - Suspect: Stephen King - Yellow Round => 10 points

* Alan Bennett: The Uncommon Reader - Victim: Lydia Bennet - Yellow Round => 10 points

* Ed Yong: I Contain Multitudes - CS: Green Dragon Pub - Yellow Round => 10 points

* Sofie Ryan: The Fast and the Furriest - CS: near a tor, Dartmoor - Green Round => 10 points

* Andrea Penrose: Murder on Black Swan Lane - CoD: Run Over by a Carriage - Yellow Round => 10 points

* Patricia Wentworth: Miss Silver Comes to Stay - CoD: Arsenical toothpaste - Red Round => 10 points

* Janet Evanovitch: Hardcore Twenty-Four - CoD: revolver - Red Round => 10 points

* Alan Lightman: Einstein's Dreams - CS: The Hob, District 12 - Yellow or Green Round => 10 points

* Agatha Christie: 4:50 From Paddington - CS: Orient Express - Red Round => 10 points

* Maggie Pearson: The House of the Cats - Suspect: Arthur Conan Doyle - Red Round => 10 points

* Jodi Taylor: A Symphony of Echos - Victim: Ariadne Oliver - Yellow Round => 10 points

* Mark Twain: A Double Barrelled Detective Story - CS: The Dark Tower - Red Round => 10 points

* Edmund Crispin: The Moving Toyshop - Victim: Dr. John Watson - Green Round => 10 points

* Patricia Briggs: Burn Bright - CS: Gryffindor Common Room - Green Round => 10 points

* Peter Godfrey-Smith: Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness - CS: Watts, L.A. - Green Round => 10 points

* Anne Bishop: Lake Silence - CS. Planet Camazotz - Green Round => 10 points

 

=> 160 extra points

 

 

Total extra points: 260

Divided by number of team members: 86,67 (= rounded: 87) points