• A Magician's Contract Between Reader and Writer: Rules for Delivering a Whodunit

    Hazell Ward on S.S. Van Dine, "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd," and Playing with Audience Expectations



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    Love and Death in the Desert

    An earlier version of this essay appeared in the April 2000 issue of Playboy. It was a romance that began the way many...