Choose a genre and a setting. You want pirates? You got 'em. you'd rather be writing high fantasy about The Knights of the round table? That's good too. Vampires and werewolves? Grow up. That's so six months ago. But you can still have a murder mystery peopled with vampires and lycanthropes, if you must.
Concoct six characters. They can be pretty cliched, that doesn't matter. They'll develop as you write. Then create a victim. Randomly assign the character's a motive for killing him/her (money, lust, jealousy, revenge and so on ...). Make one of your characters your investigator. Have them start by explaining why they would have killed the victim. Then have the MC casually admit that somone beat them to it, but (here's the clever bit) everyone thinks the MC did it. So the MC has to clear his or her name ...
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