drakensis Wrote:Aren't you forgetting that cheery little catholic bishop from Chicago?Heh. Hey, it's already being established that you are the only one in the train car who isn't either, "Detective who often solves murders, which are known to occur after they arrive on the scene not just before," or, "the sidekick who of course survives the story to tell others about it." Throwing in more detectives would just be piling on the punishment (especially for whoever gets stuck writing the story :} ). Your only hope of not being the victim is the quickly get not just off the train, but far enough away that they can't easily be roped into helping solve your death, or to hope the murder won't take place until later when other potential victims show up.
And, one nice bit, I always wanted to toss in Holmes, but of course he's totally out of period for the others... Right up until the recent British series Holmes, that resets Holmes and Watson in the current day (with current events allowing Watson to still be a British veteran who served and was injured in Afghanistan). The others don't necessarily have their stories chronologically overlapping, but adjusting by a few years to a decade or so is much less fiddling than dropping someone into a setting a century and change off their origin.
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Will the transhumanist future have catgirls? Does Japan still exist? Well, there is your answer.