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Freeman's most notable achievement is inventing the "inverted" detective story, in which the reader is told how the crime was committed at the start of the book, and the rest of the story is the description of how the detective figures it out. Everyone is so familiar with this type of plot today (the "Columbo" TV series is perhaps its best-known example) that it's easy to forget that someone actually invented it, and Freeman is that somebody.
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