Dan Piponi on Nostr: Apparently the hardest part of writing detective fiction is contriving a way for a ...
Apparently the hardest part of writing detective fiction is contriving a way for a detective to be present at a murder scene. Which is why so much detective fiction has implausible coincidences to frame the story: detectives who just happen to be invited to the country manor when a murder happens, detectives what happen to have a relative in trouble, detectives who just happen to be visiting the village fair as someone as shot, and so on.
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