Caroline: When you boil it down to the essentials, a detective barely needs to be a human being. The plot of a really great whodunnit demands only that the sleuthing entity observe, analyse, deduce and denounce. A thinking machine with a clear input and output that governs the story. Indeed,
18 Mar 2020Caroline: When constructing a plot for a detective novel, nothing matters more than boundaries. It's vital to know where the edges of the world will be, and who will be allowed to come in and out once the mystery is in progress. After all, it's no
04 Mar 2020A friendly warning: there are major spoilers for The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie in this episode. Music. Caroline: I think we're all quite comfortable with the idea of real life events inspiring fiction — it's not for nothing that some of the most critically acclaimed films
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