A sleuth's quirks are load-bearing: strip the obsessive routine and the plots collapse

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Blind detectives and deaf sleuths: disability as a plot device has aged badly in some series Implausible is not a bug in the amateur sleuth convention it is the deal readers accept Sidekicks write the case down so the sleuth can be brilliant out loud Holmes deduces everything from a hat while modern sleuths just run a database search Why do so many classic sleuths have a chronic illness or a limp? The English locked-room mystery tradition kept the fair-play rules while the American pulps ignored them Why do locked-room mysteries still sell when every room now has a camera in it? Why cozy mysteries sell so well when the violence always happens off the page Poirot straightens the ornaments and Miss Marple knits: both are reading the room in different costumes A small case that grows into a citywide conspiracy is the standard hardboiled mystery plot