Background details, passing comments

“Murder Becomes Manhattan” has essential clues to the killer’s identity, and the victim’s connection to The Organization, scattered throughout it. But they are subtly woven in, delivered in passing.At least, I hope they are.

The importance of subtlety in delivering clues has become more apparent to me as I watch such television series as “Scandal” and “Castle” and“How to Get Away With Murder”.

On the latter show, it was a small detail of background wallpaper in an incriminating photograph that...