Lew Basnight and realization: a detective story?

[Mark Kohut]

Paul Nightingale sent, sourced: 

"In essence the detective story constitutes a mythos or fable in which crime
as a distinctive problem of bourgeois, individualistic, and quasi-democratic
societies, is handled without upsetting society's fundamental institutions
or its world-view"

Lew Basnight, the detective in AtD, has a moment of realization he comes to
call 'grace":   That things are as they are...[paraphrase; away from AtD; correct if wrong, please]

Does the first paragraph relate to the second [from AtD]?....How?

Does Lew solve a crime? What does that mean in the light of the rest of Paul's
sourced notions of 'the detective story"?

Is Lew's feeling of being blamed for something he cannot remember relate to the nature
of the detective story?       Was anyone else reminded of the notion of Original Sin in Lew's feeling?


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