In the first detective story, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Edgar Allen Poe begins providing clues through the testimony of the witnesses which Dupin reads in the newspaper.
Read the story by Roald Dahl, The Landlady, which is on Blackboard and make a list of the clues Dahl provides to readers to enable them to solve the mystery. This can just be dot points.
Post to your journal with a sentence or two in which you give your personal response to the story. You might consider the following:
Did Dahl make it too difficult for the reader?
Did you enjoy the story?
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