ext_36183 ([identity profile] barberio.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] james_davis_nicoll 2009-01-05 04:32 pm (UTC)

Except that the detective in a murder mystery is an active protagonist, not a passive one. Imagine a murder mystery where the central protagonist character makes no steps to solve a murder, and doesn't know there's been a murder at all until the last chapter. It might work, but it's certainly not the normal narrative.
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