Competition Time - July's Winner and August's Competition

Thanks for all the entries in "writing a really bad first line for a crime novel".

As I'm all serial-killered out, Clare's entry wins my prize for a splendid satire on fictional profilers and serial killers:

"Well it's obviously a male, 24, left-handed, with an overbearing mother, an over-developed inferiority complex, virgo, a gold tooth, a liking for Sartre, reads Play Boy on the bus every morning to work, is a long-term Elvis fan, last went on a date three days ago and has a mole on his chin - but no, I'm sorry I can't tell you if he'll strike again, we'll just have to wait and see, said the psychological profiler."

Clare, if you'd like to send me your address by email, I'll send you a copy of Debi Alper's "Nirvana Bites".

August Competition

Win a paperback copy of Andrew Taylor's "Call The Dying" from his wonderful Lydmouth series.  You have until Sunday 3 September to submit your answer to the following question:

In honour of the 1950s setting for this series - if transported back to the 1950s, what modern day implement would you most miss and why?

The winner will be the one that throws most insight into the passage of time in a quirky fashion.

The next in the series - "Naked to the Hangman" is due out in October, so you have time to win a freebie and get hooked...

Comments

[crimeficreader]

Dear dually implemented Maxine, don't put yourself down! But do remember it's the reasoning that might you the winner...

[Maxine]

Good choice of winner, crimefic!

Is the internet an implement? I'd definitely miss that becuase I couldn't find all those out of print books or order from my 24 hour "stocked with everything" bookstore Amazon, and I'd lose the precious connections part of blogging. By default, therefore, I would also miss my computer as you can't have one without the other, so that makes two implements

Before I had children I may have answered "video recorder" as DVDs weren't invented 15 years ago. However, you need videos to use a video recorder so there I go with two implements again.

Clearly I am not a very good competition entrant, sorry.

If I really am allowed only one implement, I suppose I'd say "electric typewriter with erase option".