Now we enter the middle stage of the murder mystery. The low-hanging fruit has been plucked and sampled and discarded for being either under- or overripe. Enough brush has been cleared for the detective to see…well, at this point, more brush. But that’s fine, because hidden in there is the mistake that the villain has made, the definitive answer to every whodunnit. Every villain makes such a fatal mistake. The detective just has to find it.
