A good mystery is a wonderful consumable and then it's more or less done with. Leaving the door open without a solution but a well crafted story that many or even all suspects are equally valid allows it to linger forever like a different kind of genre. I kind of agree if that was her plan she could have done so and maybe even leaned into it a bit harder in the story to emphasize themes to ponder. As it is the prototype for many modern mystery formats I wonder how pop culture would have been different though.
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Reply to Conflicted feelings about And Then There Were None... by rafasimoes
A good mystery is a wonderful consumable and then it's more or less done with. Leaving the door open without a solution but a well crafted story that many or even all suspects are equally valid allows it to linger forever like a different kind of genre. I kind of agree if that was her plan she could have done so and maybe even leaned into it a bit harder in the story to emphasize themes to ponder. As it is the prototype for many modern mystery formats I wonder how pop culture would have been different though.