The Second Shot

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• I personally am convinced that the days of the old crime puzzle pure and simple, relying entirely upon plot and without any added attractions of character, style, or even humour, are, if not numbered, at any rate in the hands of the auditors; and that the detective story is already in process of developing into the novel with a detective or a crime interest, holding its reader less by mathematical than by psychological ties. The puzzle element will no doubt remain, but it will become a puzzle ofcharacter rather than a puzzle of time, place, motive, and opportunity. (查看原文)

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• As to technique, it appears that there are two directions in which the intelligent novelist is at present trying to develop…: he may mak eexperiments with the telling of his plot, tell it backwards, or sideways, or in bits; or he may try to develop character and atmosphere. (查看原文)

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