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This reader knows not the journey he has begun

Reading The Da Vinci Code, “Harry Potter for adults” comes to mind. There’s a sense that writer Dan Brown and Potter author J. K. Rowling attended the same creative writing course.

“Tell the story using the simplest words you can,” their instructor might have advised. “You’re not writing poetry here. People aren’t looking for colour or rhythm or even a bon mot now and then; just tell the damn story.”

Ouch.

The game of Clue is quickly solved: It was the albino in the museum with the revolver.

But wait. Show me a mystery in which a murderous albino works for himself, and I’ll show you a flawed mystery.

Zing! Good one.