I just discovered this in my notes from this semester’s “Detective Fiction” class, during a student-led exercise in which small groups come up with an idea for a murder mystery:
Student 1: We were tossing around the idea that the killer only kills people with cats. And then he shaves one of them…
Student 2: Well, he was tossing that around.
And on another day, regarding hard-boiled detectives:
They solve their problems through punching.
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