Thursday, January 02, 2014

P. D. James on the purpose of the mystery story



The mystery is an affirmation of a moral law that murder s wrong but men are responsible for their own deeds; and however difficult the problem , there is a solution. All this, I think, is rather comforting in an age of pessimism and anxiety.
Rebecca Eaton, Making Masterpiece

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