Quote by Raymond Chandler

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law t

Summary

This quote implies that many mystery novels fail to adhere to the important rule that, when the solution to a mystery is revealed, it should appear to be the only logical and inevitable outcome. In other words, a well-crafted mystery should make readers feel that all the clues and events leading up to the resolution point unequivocally to that particular solution, rather than it feeling forced or arbitrary. This observation highlights the challenge faced by authors in delivering a satisfying and believable conclusion to their mystery stories.

Topics

Reading

By Raymond Chandler

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

I am afraid that this chapter will amply demonstrate the tru

I am afraid that this chapter will amply demonstrate the truth of Clarke's 69th Law, viz., Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. In both cases the cure is simple though usually very expensive.

Arthur C. Clarke

Truth Computers Reading

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange the

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

George Bernard Shaw

If your motives aren't clean, money itself becomes evil. But

If your motives aren't clean, money itself becomes evil. But When we don't have money enough evil, the world tells us we're losers. So what determines our place in society is not how much kindness is in our hearts but how much evil is in our wallet.

Truth

I'm no expert on American politics.

I'm no expert on American politics.

Politics

When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used

When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.

Aleksandar Hemon

Life Photography Pictures Photographs

The most treasured and sacred moments of our lives are those

The most treasured and sacred moments of our lives are those filled with the spirit of love. The greater the measure of our love, the greater is our joy. In the end, the development of such love is the true measure of success in life.

Joseph B Wirthlin

Charity Love Compassion

We should learn to live and love our neighbors as ourselves

We should learn to live and love our neighbors as ourselves for the sake of peace and progress.

Love Peace Progress

Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty:

Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that good means that which simply pleases the appetite; while the beautiful is something pleasant to apprehend.

Beauty

Live or die, But don't poison everything.

Live or die, But don't poison everything.

Life Death Suicide

Most technological advances in our life now come from serend

Most technological advances in our life now come from serendipitous discoveries. That is a contraction of rocket technology and computer technology and atomic clock technology.

Technology

It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. A

It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?

Architecture

We believe that the government has an important role to crea

We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility.