Who Killed Her
The weight of truth delegated to the reader
December 14, 2020
Who Killed Her
Keigo Higashino
Hyundae Munhak
2009-06-25
9788972754381
Review
Without the culprit's name being revealed, the work ends with Detective
When this work was published, it is said that the publisher was paralyzed by inquiry calls from readers asking who the culprit was.
The reader receives the same information and clues as the detective through the text.
A character's line I was betrayed by someone I trusted appears in the work.
Doesn't this line signal the beginning of the case while simultaneously implying the author's betrayal in not revealing the identity of the culprit?
The clues at the crime scene are contaminated by two independent murder plans, bringing extreme confusion to interpretation.
It seems to be an interesting work that established a new relationship of
Kaga's ambiguous remark, Well, let's just say one of the two killed her.When this work was published, it is said that the publisher was paralyzed by inquiry calls from readers asking who the culprit was.
The reader receives the same information and clues as the detective through the text.
A character's line I was betrayed by someone I trusted appears in the work.
Doesn't this line signal the beginning of the case while simultaneously implying the author's betrayal in not revealing the identity of the culprit?
The clues at the crime scene are contaminated by two independent murder plans, bringing extreme confusion to interpretation.
It seems to be an interesting work that established a new relationship of
the author presents the problem and the reader solves it from the relationship of a reader passively consuming the author's story.