Not the red/green sort

That's what I was wondering. There is more than one type of color blindness. Red/green is the most common. More rare, but still out there, is the blue/yellow. As long as the guy wasn't any sort of a wire chaser who had to be able to read wire colors and resistor bands, it wouldn't necessarily be noticable except possibly in some very odd wardrobe choices. My teacher relied on his wife to let him know if his tie matched his suit, etc.

I worked with a guy that wore a bright purple (like, Prince would decline wearing it -- Barney bright) suit two or three times a week.

Did he also have green hair and a huge grin?

Did he also have green hair and a huge grin?

You're evidently thinking of a more muted purple than was in evidence.

That's truly frightening.

I'm very scared.

Paul worked with a guy who's good suit matched his Camero.

Nutty, $200 doesn't buy you much of a man's suit, as I recall from joining Paul in the suit section, unless you're buying close-out.

Amy, I think I've read mysteries where the victim was nice, and it didn't throw me off the story.

Nice victims only bother me if we spend a lot of time getting to know the nice victim and then she's killed.

Amy, presumably the victim dies early in the story, right? Because while I can see it being an issue if some nice character readers know well and have been rooting for dies at the 3/4 mark, I think it makes a mystery more interesting rather than less if the victim was nice. If they weren't, well, the motive is obvious, and maybe the deceased got what was coming to them. But if they were, that makes the search for a motive more interesting, and it raises the stakes by making the killer worse--someone we really want to see brought to justice, someone who might be a risk to other nice characters.

Nutty, $200 doesn't buy you much of a man's suit, as I recall from joining Paul in the suit section, unless you're buying close-out.

Yep. Nic has two, both by Hickey Freeman, who also made his tux, I think. The reason he only has two is that the damned things run about $800. So yeah, he's careful with them.

Apropos to the thread, I just sent a new section of Cruel Sister to my WIP readers. Feedback good. This one has a way different sense of threat than the first three.

edit - why in hell can't I type today?

The suit was HIDEOUS. He was absolutely brilliant at his job, and up until the bit where he sent me Cohen lyrics and begged me to sleep with him or he'd have to quit, quite a nice guy.

Nice victims only bother me if we spend a lot of time getting to know the nice victim and then she's killed.

Why is that a problem? Doesn't it make you want to find out who did it more?

But that's why she should do it. Oops, too much Lehane. But he rips my heart out with it every time. And usually the vic's entrails too, but hey... wrong place/wrong time(robbery or something in which she is...sort of accidentally killed Maybe a Bop Gun thing. Won't give up Grandma's necklace...I believe that lady died because of a "defiant chin." Novice triggerman wants to look hard, though he's not. Bang. Mistaken identity...from the back she looks like cleavagey slutbomb niece with dirtbag bf. Killed to send message to relative in the life.