Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories¶
Van Dine, S. S. (1928). Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories. The American Magazine.
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- Between the wars, practitioners codified the "fair-play" rules explicitly: Ronald Knox's "Ten Commandments" (1929) and S.S. Van Dine's "Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories" (1928) forbade supernatural agency, undiscovered poisons, hidden twins, and the withholding of clues from the reader, and required that the detective solve the crime by reasoning the reader could in principle share
This sourceThe interwar codification of the fair-play contract, including the bars on supernatural agency and on withholding clues and the requirement that the solution be reachable by the reader's own reasoning.
- Between the wars, practitioners codified the "fair-play" rules explicitly: Ronald Knox's "Ten Commandments" (1929) and S.S. Van Dine's "Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories" (1928) forbade supernatural agency, undiscovered poisons, hidden twins, and the withholding of clues from the reader, and required that the detective solve the crime by reasoning the reader could in principle share
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