Halls of the Dark Muse

I am not a big reader of mysteries but I have been known to read a few in my time, I particularly prefer historical mysteries, but when I was in high school there was this mystery series I really enjoyed about a woman who wrote for a dog magazine and had a couple of malamutes she showed.

The thing that always gets my about mystery books though, the ones which feature a civilian protagonist, opposed to an actual detective, is how is it these people like once a week seem to find themselves suddenly involved in another murder, what kind of like that they live, where finding a dead body is as common as going to the grocery store. Anyone they happen to know or come into contact with suddenly ends up dead under questionable circumstances. I can say in my entire life, I have not found myself tangled up in one single murder case, but every time they blink someone dies.

And yes I know it is fiction, and that is what makes the story, but still it is an amusing concept, particularly considering they are completely casual about it, it is like, oh hey someone else I know has been killed I guess I better find out what happened. Plus no one else they know ever mentions it to them, that it might be a bit unusual to say the least, no one is like...hey umm you know, don't you think it is kind of odd that people you know have a habit of ending up dead, and they themselves never get freaked out about it or need therapy.

It is like the joke about the lady from Murder She Wrote (I cannot recall her name) at least the joke we had in my family, that she herself was obviously guilty sense people kept ending up getting killed around her, and yet she was never even questioned. You would think the authorities would be at least a little suspicious if the same person kept finding themselves involved in different murders over and over again.