Packet 7: Bonus 8
Answer the following about unconventional novels from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, for 10 points each.
[10e] Inverted detective novels that reveal the killer’s identity up front, like Anthony Berkeley Cox’s Malice Aforethought, are often labeled “howcatchems” or a “reverse” form of this question. This genre-defining question is usually printed as one word.
ANSWER: whodunit [accept reverse whodunit]
[10h] In a series that also includes The Franchise Affair, a sympathetic portrait of this person prompts the hospital-bound detective Alan Grant to investigate this person’s supposed crime of double murder.
ANSWER: Richard III [or Richard Crookback; prompt on Richard or the Duke of Gloucester] (The novel is The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey.)
[10m] This mystery writer’s novel The Documents in the Case consists almost entirely of letters and police reports. A gentleman detective created by this author demonstrates his knowledge of campanology in The Nine Tailors.
ANSWER: Dorothy Sayers [or Dorothy Leigh Sayers] (The detective is Lord Peter Wimsey.)
<Editors, British Literature> | G. Prelims 7 - Georgia Tech A + Berkeley A + Bruin + Georgetown
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 15.24 | 100% | 48% | 5% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| British Columbia | UCF | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Chicago A | Texas | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EHM |
| Chicago B | Michigan | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Columbia A | Cambridge | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Georgia Tech B | UCLA | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Illinois A | Brown | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Indiana | NYU B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Johns Hopkins | Stanford B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| MIT | Cornell | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Maryland A | Columbia B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| NYU A | Northwestern B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Northwestern A | Georgia Tech C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Ohio State | Swarthmore | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Penn State | Toronto A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Purdue | Maryland B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Stanford A | Toronto B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| UC Berkeley B | Vanderbilt | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Virginia | North Carolina | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Virginia Tech | Minnesota | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| WashU | Harvard | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Waterloo | Pittsburgh | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 21 | 15.24 | 100% | 48% | 5% |