Delving deeply into clues, themes, and narrative design
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Spoiler Warning | The Hound of the Baskervilles: A Classic Sherlock Holmes Novel
This is a review of The Hound of the Baskervilles, focusing on this classic Sherlock Holmes novel. It introduces the story’s setting and the development of the case, which will…
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Spoiler Warning | The Killing Hills By Chris Offutt : A Must-Read In Appalachian Noir
This article focuses on Chris Offutt’s novel The Killing Hills. In the author’s discussion, the book is not only about the progression of a murder investigation, but also about the…
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Spoiler Warning | Why do you always guess the wrong murderer? — The Decagon House Murders
Yukito Ayatsuji’s The Decagon House Murders is the first installment in the “Mansion series” and one of the landmark works of the new honkaku mystery movement. Unlike many detective novels…