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Mysteries are a tough tightrope. Give away too much and you’ve spoiled the reader’s fun; but if you keep the information too guarded, there’s nothing there to hook a reader’s interest. That’s why, I think, so many popular detectives have some sort of character quirk to make up for an occasionally-unsteady hand on the plot: Jessica Fletcher is a wonderful marm, even when the clues don’t fully add up; Columbo is playfully gruff; Dick Tracy.
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