The Best American Mystery Stories 3 - Plot & Excerpts
Nothing astonished R__ more, and more alarmed him! Relatively young, he’d achieved renown as a writer of popular yet literary novels; his field was the psychological suspense mystery, a genre in which he excelled, perhaps because he respected the tradition and took infinite care in composition. These were terse, minimally plotted but psychologically knotty novels written, as R__ said in interviews, sentence by sentence, and so they must be read sentence by sentence, with attention, as one might perform steps in a difficult dance. R__ was himself both choreographer and dancer. And sometimes, even after decades of effort, R__ lost his way, and despaired. For there was something of horror in the lifelong contemplation of mystery; a sick, visceral helplessness that must be transformed into control, and mastery. And so R__ never gave up any challenge, no matter how difficult. “To give up is to confess you’re mortal and must die.” R__ was one of those admired persons who remain mysterious even to old friends.
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