/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>34637978
[red]Van Dine's 7th: It is forbidden to have a crime without a corpse.[/red]
"There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel, and the deader the corpse the better. No lesser crime than murder will suffice. Three hundred pages is far too much pother for a crime other than murder. After all, the reader's trouble and expenditure of energy must be rewarded."

>>34549989
Van Dine's 11th:
A servant must not be chosen by the author as the culprit. This is begging a noble question. It is a too easy solution. The culprit must be a decidedly worth-while person — one that wouldn't ordinarily come under suspicion.