He nodded, but didn't push her on making an appearance -- fae did what they wanted when they wanted, and that went double for Unseelie.
"More like murders in general," he said in response to her question, setting the book down so that it rested in the cleft between a tree and its lowest-hanging branch.
"It's like a game. The basic rules were published in 1928 by S.S. Van Dine, the author of the Philo Vance series. Things like 'The reader must have equal opportunity with the detective for solving the mystery.' In other words, they take place in a universe with an ordered set of rules. Within those rules, the reader tries to deduce the identity of the culprit before the character in the story. Of course, not everyone follows Van Dine's proposal."
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"More like murders in general," he said in response to her question, setting the book down so that it rested in the cleft between a tree and its lowest-hanging branch.
"It's like a game. The basic rules were published in 1928 by S.S. Van Dine, the author of the Philo Vance series. Things like 'The reader must have equal opportunity with the detective for solving the mystery.' In other words, they take place in a universe with an ordered set of rules. Within those rules, the reader tries to deduce the identity of the culprit before the character in the story. Of course, not everyone follows Van Dine's proposal."