A Question for Death: How Important is WhoDunnit?

Categories: Craft | Crime | Whodunnit | Writing

Agnete Friis, Gianrico Carofiglio, Lene Kaaberbøl, and Peter Rozovsky examine the role of the culprit reveal in mystery fiction. They discuss what the answer to the crime means to them as writers, how they use the structure of a whodunnit, and how solving the crime shapes character and story.

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