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Q&A How to handle a massive info dump post-ending?

Some of the best detective mystery novels - I'm thinking especially about the noir genre - have a penultimate chapter where the detective solves the murder(s) and explains everything, and the bad g...

posted 7y ago by davidbak‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T07:57:20Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision by user avatar davidbak‭ · 2019-12-08T07:57:20Z (almost 5 years ago)
Some of the best detective mystery novels - I'm thinking especially about the noir genre - have a _penultimate_ chapter where the detective solves the murder(s) and explains everything, and the bad guy gets what's coming to him _blam! blam! blam!_ and it all makes sense and it's over.

Except, then there's the _last_ chapter, where the hardboiled dick goes to the sympathetic girl and explains that he knows it was really her (or her deranged sister) all along and why and she makes goo-goo eyes at him but of course it's not to be and then he blows town.

Maybe your current ending can be adapted to this scheme in some way.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2018-02-14T23:18:00Z (almost 7 years ago)
Original score: 5