The A.B.C. Murders by Agatha Christie
In the postmodern mystery, the detective often seems more interested in deconstructing documents than solving crimes. So deeply has the linguistic turn in academia permeated these books, that semiotics trumps criminology time and again, and fingerprints and bloodstains are rudely ignored in favor of explication de texte.
Fans of more traditional mysterie…
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