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    I really enjoyed the Benjamin Stevenson novels Everyone in my family has killed someone and Everyone on this train is a suspect. In them, everything is laid-bare, all the clues are directly accessible to the reader. No wilful obfuscation allowed. No giant unpredictable plot twists. Of course Stevenson goes very far with it, making the books very meta, which is not necessarily what i'm asking for. But i'm not against it 😉

    Basically, I'm looking for a crime novel with a central mystery that the reader, if they're smart (which i'm not, but that's beside the point) could solve themself with attentive reading.

    The only other exemples I have are movies unfortunately, not books. The Benoit Blanc Mysteries (Knives Out…) or the excellent 1973 thriller The Last of Sheila.

    by dwarfoscar

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    1. The genre you are looking for is “Fair Play Mysteries”

      Check out:
      * Magpie Murders
      * Decagon House Murders
      * How to Solve Your Own Murder
      * The Only One Left
      * Red House Mystery

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