The Other Side of the Blindfold by Dirk Mathison
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Author: Dirk Mathison
Publisher: Hartley Publishing
Source: TV series Murder She Wrote: S12 E15 The Dark Side of the Door
Yes, yes I know, it’s a one off book snatched from a single episode of a TV show. Should I include this? Maybe not, but… there’s so much detail about this fictional book. So much detail, and so much backstory. I think the answer is definitely yes.
Jessica’s young editor Erin Garmin was kidnapped (and ransomed by her grandfather for $3M) as a child of 12 and has never quite got over the trauma. She is upset to read a manuscript of a supposed novel about an abducted child that seems to mirror her own experiences exactly. And she wants to know if it is indeed a novel.
The author, Dirk Mathison, once a successful novelist, admits that he got the whole story from a woman, Nora Delano, who he met by chance in a bar in Tucson, Arizona. He taped what she had to say, and wrote his book. She gave him details about the kidnapping which had never been reported in the press, but did not reveal who her co-conspirator was. And then, guess what, Nora is murdered. Dirk’s agent and publisher are not thrilled to discover that what they thought was a novel seems to be a true crime story. Getting truer and more crimey by the minute.
And then Dirk is murdered too.
Only after half the characters in this Murder She Wrote episode are arrested or murdered do we discover who it was actually kidnapped Erin, and why. And obviously, who killed who.
And the moral of this story is: don’t kidnap anyone, and if you are worried someone has worked out it was you, don’t run round killing people to cover your tracks.
If you have seen this Murder She Wrote episode you will know why I chose carrots.
On a personal note, if I tell anyone that I write a blog about crispy snacks they nod as if this is perfectly normal behaviour. If I say I write about fictional books that don’t really exist, like The Other Side of the Blindfold or the complete works of Josephine M Bettany (a fictional author), they act like I’m a little bit crazy. I can’t think why. What do you think?
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