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I have written about a number of literary cliches which I’ve come across in my reading of murder mysteries from the golden age of detective fiction, the 1920s and 1930s. There was the ever nimble fat man, and the sinister “deal table”. Also, I have alluded to the “elephant in the room” cliché/trope. Today…
Recently reading an old-timey Ellery Queen mystery, I stumbled across yet another nimble fat man allusion: “As the District Attorney closed the door the occupant of the room wheeled about with astonishing agility for a man of his weight.” This cliché appears in The Roman Hat Mystery (1929). The “astonishing agility” reminded me of a…