Care to lend a head?
Jones and the player visit the Grimsborough Museum, where they find the taxidermied body of novel writer Wilfred Turnscrew.
Tropes:
- Adam Westing: Jones tells you that he's been reading Wilfred's latest bestseller, "The Death of Rosie Woolf."Jones: And get this: The story is set right here in Grimsborough and it reminds me an awful lot of our own cases!
- Alliterative Name: Mortimer Mutlog, The Taxidermist. And the villain based on him in Wilfred's books, Morg.
- Awesome by Analysis: Jones and the player discover where the victim was killed after analyzing a bug that was stuck in the corpse's throat, linking it to a specific location of the forest of Grimsborough.
- Call-Back: Margaret Littlewood and the events of Case 22 are brought up again.
- Continuity Nod: After Alex confirms you that the killer loves theater, Jones recalls how they've also had killers with dandruff, who wore bandages, and even one who used a special shampoo.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Wilfred was first beaten until he fell unconscious, then taxidermied while still alive with a skinning knife. Even Nathan warns you before he gives you an explanation of how Wilfred was killed.
- Dead Guy on Display: Wilfred's taxidermied body was put on a museum display for everyone to see.
- I Did What I Had to Do: Cornelia killed Wilfred because not only had his books stop the influx of people visiting her museum, which nearly made it go to ruin, but also due to his murder boosting the entrance sales, saving the museum from going out of business.
- Foreshadowing: One of the tasks in the Additional Investigation is helping you cure James' dog, where you discover it's been poisoned by rat poison. He then tells you these kind of things always happen near the Dog Pageant Contest for some reason. Come Case 31, and you find out why.
- Forest Ranger: James is a modern example. He even admits to hating Wilfred due to his novels bringing people into the forest, polluting it with their trash.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: James Savage is prone to anger outbursts. This indirectly ends up causing Wilfred's death, since he angrily beat him up until he fell unconscious, which allowed the real murderer to taxidermy him.
- The Hermit: James Savage, who lives by himself with his dog in a forest shack.Margaret: That husky belongs to James Savage. I doubt you've ever seen him before since he lives by himself, deep in the forest and seldom leaves it.
- Lampshade Hanging: Jones lampshades how easily they're able to enter whatever crime scene they needed to visit.Jones: Have you noticed that a lot of people in the Historical Center leave their doors open even when they're not there.
- Pulled from Your Day Off: Jones and the player stumble upon the victim's body during their day off at the museum.
- Right for the Wrong Reasons: Since the murder strongly resembles one of the victim's novels, Jones suggests you solving it by doing what the protagonists did in said novel: talking to the museum curator, who in the book gives a vital piece of information which helps them catch the killer. However, when you and Jones talk to Cornelia, she apparently doesn't tells you anything important apart for giving herself elements of the killer's profile... which end up being enough to prove she is the killer in the first place. So in the end, talking to Cornelia ended up helping solve the murder, but not in the way Jones assumed would happen.
- Shout-Out:
- The cases's title is based on the movie of the same name.
- In the Exhibit Display scene, Grumpy Cat is present.
- In the Trophy Room, the word "Redrum" is carved on a drawer.
- In the Overgrown Garden scene is a smiling version of Ghostface's mask.
- Sibling Rivalry: Wilfred and his brother Stanley didn't get along very well, mainly due to Wilfred accusing Stanley of making money off his work.
- Spoiled by the Cast List: In-Universe example. Jones accidentally spoils himself one of Wilfred's books after finding out that he based the main villain off one of the suspects, giving away his identity.Jones: Mortimer was convinced Wilfred based the book's villain, Morg, on him... Wait a second? So Morg is Mortimer?!
- Tempting Fate: At this point, Jones' murder predictions have become plainly ridiculous.Jones: Ah, it's great to be out in the open, surrounded by happy families... It's a nice reminder that there aren't just murders going on in this city.
