| "Raymond Chandler once called murder a simple art: Maybe so, but detection is a decid- edly elegant one, elegant in the way a mathe- matician calls a tidy solution to a t~articularly kn otty problem elegant. Sherlock Holnles used logic, Father Brown an abili~fto put himself in the murderer s skin, Lord Peter a knack for intuitive bursts of inspiration, Sam Spade an instinct to distrust his suspects only so far, Lew Archer a belief that more crimes can be explained by Freud than Blackstone. But more central than the methods and man- nerisms of the great detectives is the fact that they cut through confusion and chaos, solve puzzles, and set things right to make the world seem quite a logical place after all. They restore order. As for those methods and mannerisms--there, for the readers of detec- tive stories, is where the fun lies." |
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