Detection


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The Snake Stone (Yashim the Eunuch, #2)
The Janissary Tree (Yashim the Eunuch #1)
A Death in Vienna (Liebermann Papers, #1)
And Then There Were None
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Criss Jami
Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy.
Criss Jami, Killosophy

Umberto Eco
It seems that the Parisian Oulipo group has recently constructed a matrix of all possible murder-story situations and has found that there is still to be written a book in which the murderer is the reader. Moral: there exist obsessive ideas, they are never personal; books talk among themselves, and any true detection should prove that we are the guilty party.
Umberto Eco, Postscript to the Name of the Rose

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