MINDTRAP #2 - 11/30

[pandybat]

The dead body of Karry Queen, the famous American romance novelist, lay slumped across his hotel room desk. His hand lay near an empty bottle of sleeping pills. A suicide note lay on the desk. "It's so strange," said the bellhop, "as I was carrying Mr. Queen's bags, he was talking excitedly about being in England. As a matter of fact, he said this was the first time he had ever been out of the U.S., and he was planning to write his next novel with London as the setting."
Shadow looked at the note. It read:
I have lost my will to live. My work has received all the honour it deserves. My writing was the centre of my life, but in retrospect, I suppose they're just trashy novels. As the colour fades from my eyes, I can only hope for a better life in the next world.
"Based on this I'm sure Mr. Queen was murdered," declared Shadow. Why?

[PHReD]

honoUr

crazy London-ers with their funny spellings...
Latour,
PHReD

[devlina2u]

and coloUr

I write the British English....it would be hard for me to figure it out!

Cool Phred!

[dianemarie]

And centre. Very English!

[pandybat]

You both are right!

Since Mr. Karry Queen was born and raised in the U.S., he would not have spelled the HONOUR, CENTRE and COLOUR as they appeared in the note, since this is the British way of spelling these words. An American would have written: HONOR, CENTER and COLOR.

[Reneek]

This guy had to have been strangled to death.....when one is choked, the eyes become bloodshot...dang, I forget the medical terminology for it....anyway, by the time it would take his eyes to become discolored, he would be dead for awhile, so he couldn't have written the suicide note.