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Crime fiction is more than a sequence of crimes, clues, and solutions. It is an architecture of knowledge: a system that controls what characters and readers know, when they know it, and how that knowledge changes everything that came before.The Architecture of Crime presents a comprehensive narratology of twenty-first-century crime fiction, examining focalization, narrative voice, clues, suspense ... Read more

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