Wednesday, May 20, 2009
What! No Corpse? - 0 Comments
"Nuggets of variation have been unearthed by such masters as
Edgar Allen Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; but it appeared to me
that these and lesser diggers in that field were bound by a single
cast-iron set of rules. The body of a murdered person is found -
formerly on the library floor; latterly on the top of a bus,
beneath a lift or other unlikely place - and then the detective has
a look at the corpse, and his investigation leads inevitably to the
arrest of the murderer. Questions demanded an answer. Why a corpse?
Why be satisfied with what satisfied our grandfathers?...Why not
write a murder mystery without a corpse at all?"
Arthur Upfield in "The Murchison Murders", a booklet he wrote
in 1934 reproduced in Up
& Down the Real Australia published by Lulu.com,
2009
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