According to young adult novelist Laurence Yep:
a good mystery challenges the mind. It presents a set of clues, some of which appear so contradictory they seem as tangled as the mythological Gordian knot. The detective wields reason like a knife slicing though the knot to the truth. . . . The stroke must be exact and sure because a mystery must reveal some truth about society and what we hope are the workings of our universe. The knife that cuts is also the knife that shapes us as creatures of reason, as social beings, as readers and writers. (Yep, 2003, p. 1521)
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