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Originally Posted by HarryT
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?
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Well there is a climax of a sort at the start of such stories. I mean the villain doesn't set out usually to kill someone. They are driven to it by whatever impulse and it is a flip on the traditional detective story in that we know who did it from the start. I guess in a way it could be said to have two climax points.