Timeline for How to make the murder's identity less obvious, or make the obviousness not matter?
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| Sep 2 at 21:41 | comment | added | gidds | One famous author managed to successfully hide a first-person murder — and so well that the book is sometimes called their masterpiece. So yes, it's definitely possible. (Whether anyone else could get away with it now, without readers drawing unflattering comparisons with that book, is another matter, of course.) | |
| Feb 16, 2018 at 23:02 | comment | added | user289661 | I don't think it's entirely unfeasible for the first-person narrator to withhold a secret like that, or that it is necessary to divulge the unreliability of the narrator upfront. That alternative suggestion is very entertaining, however, and it may be something I considered seriously. | |
| Feb 16, 2018 at 20:35 | history | answered | Amadeus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |