So I'm a few chapters into Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose", which is presented as a modern scholar rewriting a testimony of a monk who was relating a murder mystery he'd been a part of. It's a pretty interesting way of storytelling, however I had an idea which sounds even cooler in my head – a modern scholar who searches for an answer to a mystery from the past without a known solution, browsing through books and maybe archeological evidence to satisfy their curiosity.
Not looking for novels like "Da Vinci Code" though. I'm more interested in past murder mysteries, or other kinds of mysteries, with no stakes in modern times.
Do you have anything that comes to your mind(s)?
by SonOfFarfocel
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The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey. It’s a classic.
“What we can know” by Ian mcewan is sort of like this – the mystery is a poem that the scholar 150 years in the future is in search of. I really loved it, one of my favorite reads of 2025
Check out Eco’s follow up to the book you’re reading, Foucault’s Pendulum.