As part of my ongoing obsession with cross-genre pollination (and yes, this does lead eventually into my quest for monetizable work), I’m looking for examples of stories that contain investigations or puzzle solving, OTHER THAN formula whodunits and spy capers.
Examples of what I’m looking for:
- “Jane Eyre” and “Rebecca”: Who was that mystery ex-lover?
- “Forbidden Planet”: What happened to the Krell?
- “A Letter to Three Wives”: Whose marriage is kaput?
UPDATE: Some of your responses (thank you):
Joe Mabel:
“Crying of Lot 49”: structured as a mystery, not solved at the end.
“Death and the Compass” (Borges): hard to explain, just read it, it’s short.
Darrin McDonough:
Two good reads from local author Erik Larsen: Thunderstruck, and The Devil in the White City. Both tell of non fictonal Murders that are intersperced with signifigant historical events of the time. The seemingley non related storylines converge at the end.
