thriller

is distinguished from literature in that the more literary (and less thriller) a novel gets, the further down the list of undesirable fates death falls.

In the thriller, the worst thing that can happen to the hero is death. The more literary a novel gets, the further down the list of undesirable fates death falls.

is an extension of the fairy tale. It is melodrama so embellished as to create the illusion that the story being told, however unlikely, could be true.

is the cardinal 20th century literary form. All it, like the 20th century, wants to know is: Who's Guilty?

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