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A nice list, though I think my favourite detective story would fail on at least one point; indeed, ‘The Murder of Roger Ackroyd’ by Agatha Christie succeeds lar
by docdeek 8y ago
A nice list, though I think my favourite detective story would fail on at least one point; indeed, ‘The Murder of Roger Ackroyd’ by Agatha Christie succeeds largely because it goes against one of the rules.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Murder_of_Roger_Ackroyd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Murder_of_Roger_Ackroyd
- probably_wrong 8y ago"Murder on the Orient Express" also goes against the list, same for Sherlock Holmes in general. I think it's one of those situations in which you deviate from the rules either because you don't know what you are doing, or because you know precisely what you are doing.