Richard wrote (some tiem ago, but I'm catching up):
"Even though the thrust of the story was contra-Christie
style writing, there was a reluctance to abandon the
convention of making everyone and his brother a potential
suspect."
Joseph Hansen does the same thing in the David Brandstetter
books. He moves pretty much every character through the crime
scene and solving the murder depends upon figuring out the
exact timeline, so as to expose the murderer who claims
either to have left the victim alive or discover him/her
already dead. I sometimes found this a bit stilted in a
series I otherwise think very highly of.
Mark
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