Unlooked for death stalks our pages in numerous guises from conniving family members to evil oligarchs. What is wonderful about the genre is its amazing flexibility from cozy comedy (essentially restorative of faith in human nature) and gripping tragedy (tearing away our comfortable avoidance of mortality). On the other hand, hardboiled mysteries reveal the darkness in the human heart and how even the best detectives cannot purify society from violence. On the one hand, mysteries can be cozy in converting the fearsome subject of death itself as something that can be solved, a fiction that dissolves death into something essentially unnatural. We love murder mysteries because the story catches in its net the biggest fish of all: the taboo against killing another human being and the unknown country of death.
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