Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

Sayers 10 Commandments of Detective Fiction The criminal must be someone mentioned in the early part of the story, but must not be anyone whose thoughts the reader has been allowed to follow. No accident must ever help the detective, nor must he ever have an unaccountable intuition which proves to be right. Erin was keeping watch in case someone decided to investigate, but it was completely futile; her visibility was only a few meters. The detective will be sitting and thinking, and maybe the jigsaw in their head slowly locks into place, or maybe it’s fireworks, or dominoes; maybe they’re stumbling down a dark corridor and they finally find the switch.