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Dead Ends: Investigating a murder without a body in an archive marked by absence

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/dead-ends

by lermontov • 6 years ago

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summerdown2• 6 years ago

Well, that was hugely frustrating. It reminded me of those satires of local newspapers, where the crash of the Hindenburg is described as "local man delayed."

I get that the author has a real interest in missing documentation. And the issue of missing documentation from the colonial period can be really interesting. But it's just unfair to the reader to begin a story with a mystery, and then not actually give any solution to that mystery.

I get it - the answer is to "buy my book." Not when it's so unsatisfying, no I won't.

Sorry for the frustration coming through here, but this story really annoyed me. It's bait and switch of the worst kind.

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