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Chapter 4: ______
The Golden Age Puzzle Plot
______
The Taste of the Construction
In all media, ______ from the 1910s onward found that mystery plotting encouraged tricky techniques.
popular storytellers
In all media, popular storytellers ______ found that mystery plotting encouraged tricky techniques.
from the 1910s onward
In all media, popular storytellers from the 1910s onward found that ______.
mystery plotting encouraged tricky techniques
We confront ______, as critic Victor Shklovsky indicated, when the narrative announces that we don’t know something.
a mystery
We confront a mystery, as critic ______ indicated, when the narrative announces that we don’t know something.
Victor Shklovsky
We confront a mystery, as critic Victor Shklovsky indicated, when ______.
the narrative announces that we don’t know something
If ______ [that which we don’t know], we can call the result an investigation plot.
the action is focused on revealing that something
If the action is focused on revealing that something [that which we don’t know], we can call the result ______.
an investigation plot
That plot [the investigation plot] must both ______ and take us back to events leading up to the present.
track the inquiry
That plot [the investigation plot] must both track the inquiry and ______.
take us back to events leading up to the present
As investigation plots ______, audiences grew adept at enjoying them.
became common
As investigation plots became common, ______.
audiences grew adept at enjoying them
That [audience] engagement would, ______, encourage innovation, even when the novelty seemed a little arbitrary.
by the logic of the variorum
That [audience] engagement would, by the logic of the variorum, ______, even when the novelty seemed a little arbitrary.
encourage innovation
That [audience] engagement would, by the logic of the variorum, encourage innovation, ______.
even when the novelty seemed a little arbitrary
______ deplored “the taste of the construction” he felt after reading Wilkie Collins.
Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope ______ he felt after reading Wilkie Collins.
deplored “the taste of the construction”
Anthony Trollope deplored “the taste of the construction” he ______.
felt after reading Wilkie Collins
But that taste [of the construction], actually ______, for flagrant artifice and sensed pattern, informs much of what audiences enjoyed about mysteries.
a taste for felt construction
But that taste [of the construction], actually a taste for felt construction, for ______ and sensed pattern, informs much of what audiences enjoyed about mysteries.
flagrant artifice
But that taste [of the construction], actually a taste for felt construction, for flagrant artifice and ______, informs much of what audiences enjoyed about mysteries.
sensed pattern
But that taste [of the construction], actually a taste for felt construction, for flagrant artifice and sensed pattern, ______.
informs much of what audiences enjoyed about mysteries
