And Then There Were None: Agatha Christie and Her Deconstruction of the Mystery Genre

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More people keep tossing around the word “deconstruction.” But she basically created the thing, changed the whole genre, like she invented it. So to me it doesn’t really count as deconstructing. And if the “deconstruction” mystery is the detectives get sent to some murder at Haversham Manor, find out the butler was behind it, then still go along with him because of class loyalty and then they murder the rest of the lord’s family to spark some kind of social revolution—yeah, I don’t know if that’s what it’s actually supposed to mean, but that’s the vibe I’m seeing.