“I have always felt a curious attraction in romances of detection – a species of popular fiction which bears much the same relation to the world of actual crime as does pastoral poetry to the realities of rural economy –(…)” – I really like this #metafictional musings Innes let’s his protagonists do. (It’s really interesting to see which crime writer does it and who doesn’t. #Christie does it a lot, Sayers never does it, even if Harriet Vane is a writer.)
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