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Personally I like the English style better. It is not quite so brittle, and the people as a rule, just wear clothes and drink drinks. There is more sense of background, as if Cheesecake Manor really existed all around and not just the part the camera sees; there are more long walks over the Downs and the characters don't all try to behave as if they had just been tested by MGM. The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.
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fiction-writing
murder-mysteries
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Raymond Chandler |
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It occurred to me then that the man might not be mad; I found this far more disquieting than the alternative.
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murder-mysteries
neil-gaiman
smoke-and-mirrors
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Neil Gaiman |
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b19c522
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It had always been a part of his job which he found difficult, the total lack of privacy for the victim. Murder stripped away more than life itself. The body was parceled, labelled, dissected; address books, diaries, confidential letters, every part of the victim's life was sought out and scrutinized. Alien hands moved among the clothes, picked up and examined the small possessions, recorded and labelled for public view the sad detritus of sometimes pathetic lives.
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murder-mysteries
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P.D. James |