Writing+Style

When writing a character-driven book revolving around different reactions to a central event in third person, it's difficult to not give away any important clues during the narration. Yet Agatha Christie, being the fantastic writer that she is, easily accomplishes this by writing mostly in dialogue and, when using narration, sticking to the pure objective facts, such as, "a good-looking girl, a very English type with her pale ash-blond hair and her rather long face" (93-94). This way, the narration remains reliable, and the reader has to remain observant. Unfortunately, the narration is not going to tell us anymore than it has to. The clues are given away in the dialogue and thus the reader learns just as much as the characters do as the book progresses, we're like real investigators.
 * Mysterious, but Factual**

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