Section 04
04
The Break
The attack on the whole apparatus. 4 entries.
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04.1
The Simple Art of Murder
Raymond Chandler's 1944 essay attacked the English puzzle for being an exercise about nothing, performed by people who had never seen a crime.
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04.2
Black Mask and the pulps
Cheap magazines printed on rough paper paid by the word and produced a completely different sentence.
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04.3
Hammett's Continental Op
A nameless operative who works cases as a job, written by a man who had done the job.
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04.4
The street for the drawing room
Move the crime out of the country house and the social arrangement that made the puzzle possible disappears with it.
