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Originally Posted by Quoth
Yes, quite common.
And in one case it was a scheme to kill all the guests!
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Novels from the mid '800 have plenty of those, I guess. Allan Edgar Poe is a master in that grotesque, and even in those stories where the object is not hidden from the start, but the reader won't guess where it was till the end.
From the "Sacred and Terrible Air" what impressed me the most was that the investigations that take place on the plot, searcing for the three girls disappeared 30 years ago, from three old friends whose shared them infance together, leads to an explanation (no spoilers) where the reader still will ask him/herself what suggestions given follow: since the novel is written by the prospective of various characters, my personal guess was still if that has had been a murder, or to take the sci-fi parts of it.
And there is where I think that novel is kinda majestic: finding oneself asking if to believe and follow a maybe-lay-sci-fi plot, or a very grotesque manic murder, etc...