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Fiction

raccoon

(31,585 posts) Mon Mar 17, 2014, 04:07 PM Mar 2014

I don't like a mystery where the story is told in first person, SPOILERS [View all]

and then it turns out in the end the narrator did it.

What, and all through the book, the narrator has been keeping it from the reader?
It ain't cricket.

Two cases I know of: THE PERFECT GHOST by Linda Barnes, and one of the Gordianus the
Finder books by Stephen Saylor (I don't remember which one.).

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I don't like a mystery where the story is told in first person, SPOILERS [View all] raccoon Mar 2014 OP

What's the problem? Curmudgeoness Mar 2014 #1

The problem is that sort of story ought to be told in third person. raccoon Mar 2014 #2

LOL, "I forgot to tell you....." Curmudgeoness Mar 2014 #3

I don't think there were any in the Barnes novel I just finished. raccoon Mar 2014 #4

Spoiler alert! SheilaT Mar 2014 #5

They are more interesting getting old in mke Mar 2014 #6