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According to Im Seong-sun’s debut novel, The Consultant, there is little interest in crime fiction in South Korea, with Agatha Christie the only such writer whose works are published there – “And those were shelved with the children’s books.” And yet Im has managed to secure a formidable reputation in his homeland with this story, first published there in 2010, even though it isn’t just a crime novel, but a crime novel about the art of crime writing.