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Originally Posted by crich70
Hey I resemble that remark.  Though you did kind of set it up with your wording. Anyway I think the end is usually where most people expect to find the climax. The one exception I can think of is when the story is set up like an episode of Columbo. Then the climax scene would be at the start. |
I'm not sure I'd agree that the inverted detective story is an exception. Isn't the denouement of such a story generally the unmasking of the perpetrator of the crime - which normally occurs at the end of the book?