The Posthumous Investigation turns a murder mystery into a deadly time loop
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The Posthumous Investigation turns a murder mystery into a deadly time loop

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Groundhog Day, but the groundhog's been murdered. That's more or less where The Posthumous Investigation starts, and I'd say it's a better use of a time loop than most things that borrow one. You're a private investigator, and your client is a dead man. An influential entrepreneur, killed, who has somehow got round to hiring you anyway. You've got one day to find out who did it, and when that day runs out, it simply starts over with everything you learned still rattling around in your head. Bill Murray had the same arrangement, and he mostly used it to learn piano. ... [MORE]

Groundhog Day, but the groundhog's been murdered. That's more or less where The Posthumous Investigation starts, and I'd say it's a better use of a time loop than most things that borrow one. You're a private investigator, and your client is a dead man. An influential entrepreneur, killed, who has somehow got round to hiring you anyway. You've got one day to find out who did it, and when that day runs out, it simply starts over with everything you learned still rattling around in your head. Bill Murray had the same arrangement, and he mostly used it to learn piano. ... [MORE]

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