How 'Game of Thrones' Book Fans Investigated Joffrey's Murder

And there's no better demonstration of that difference than the mystery of who killed Joffrey Baratheon, an event viewers have had just a few days to process but readers have been picking apart for the last 14 years.

Readers of George R.R. Martin's epic-length A Song of Ice and Fire series knew that King Joffrey wasn't long for this world once he got engaged to Margaery Tyrell, but for millions of Game of Thrones fans, last night's "Purple Wedding" was something of

*Spoilers everywhere*. Joffrey Baratheon, very possibly the most hated man in Westeros, met an untimely end at his own wedding where he was poisoned by an unknown assailant, coughing and spluttering to death in the arms of Cersai Lannister.

It's been quite some time since the death of a major television character was greeted with such rapturous applause. On Sunday night's episode of Game of Thrones, “The Lion and the Rose,” King Joffrey Baratheon, the demented child of incest and all

And there's no better demonstration of that difference than the mystery of who killed Joffrey Baratheon, an event viewers have had just a few days to process but readers have been picking apart for the last 14 years. The jaw-drop moments that make Game