The scene is absurd to the point of funny—four men in tight quarters with an exposed corpse and yet affably disinterested.
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Diana Arterian
June 16,
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16 June 2025
One, set in a natural history museum, involves fossils; there’s a locked room mystery (with a mystery writer for a victim), which delights Patience, an Agatha Christie fan, and there’s a corpse that seemingly walks off a table in the morgue.
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