Caroline: Agatha Christie received a lot of accolades during her long writing career. She had fans all over the world, her books sold thousands upon thousands of copies and (mostly) received good reviews, and in 1971 she was made a Dame by the Queen for her services for literature. But
Caroline: When you boil it down to the essentials, a detective barely needs to be a human being. The plot of a really great whodunnit demands only that the sleuthing entity observe, analyse, deduce and denounce. A thinking machine with a clear input and output that governs the story. Indeed,
Caroline: When constructing a plot for a detective novel, nothing matters more than boundaries. It's vital to know where the edges of the world will be, and who will be allowed to come in and out once the mystery is in progress. After all, it's no
