Justice is a Game -- These Are the Rules:

A post for future reference. Notes that will come into play in later cases. Rules that any detective worth his salt should be aware of.

1. Eliminate your Usual Suspects first. Our Usual Suspects:
   

• Gary Busey
• Tony Blair
• Uwe Boll
• The Jonas Brothers
• Whoever invented Survivor
• Ashton Kutcher
• Glenn Beck
• Fox News
• All of Fox' "and Friends" (i.e. known associates)

1. Communism is a red herring
2. Butler always did it
3. Conspiracies always go back to involvement with the Nazi Aliens
   
4. Dinner Parties are iffy: if held in a mainland home, you will have to solve a murder; if on an island, you will probably die
5. Holmes once said "when everything logical has been eliminated, whatever's left, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." Therefore, save time and start at the improbable.
6. There is no such thing as a vacation. Someone will probably die the moment you start unpacking your flip-flops, and you'll be reluctantly roped in.
7. Use as much Pulp Slang as you can: http://www.miskatonic.org/slang.html