Variation on a theme is the essence of detective fiction, dressing the old beloved tropes in new clothes. Pick any job — plumber, rodeo clown, TV critic — add "detective" and you've got your main character. (You might even do something with a detective who is also a detective — I'm not sure what, exactly, but I smell some metafictional opportunities there.) Choose a date, in history or the future, like you're the Doctor piloting the TARDIS, and you have your setting. Somebody gets murdered,... Read this story
