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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/33310
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I am in a sense suggesting a different but similar twist to @Stilez suggestion.

> It’s the aftermath. I can’t drag the antagonist into a Poirot/Sherlock Holmes style Q&A as he's already in jail.

Let the antagonist tell the _real_ story. To someone. To a cell mate. To a beautiful journalist girl/boy (hello, "Silence of the lambs"). In his/her last will. In a letter to NYT, police, protagonist, protagonist's beautiful spouse. You'd better know, how. I am suggesting _what_.

The letter/confession/news story format explains the infodump structure, too. You might want to style it a bit like the appropriate prototype.

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To give an unknown example from a first-hand experience: To round-off an "alternate history" story of a friend, I took some off-the-shelf news articles and basically rewrote (and distorted them, but tried hardest to keep the style) to fit those characters who would become famous.

So, nothing really changed, but some famous people in the news are now other people. A quite anti-climatic end, but desired and heavily hinted in the main text.

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