OBA as crime writer, anyone?

[Robin Landseadel]

On Jan 19, 2009, at 6:09 AM, Tara Brady wrote:

> Yesterday's Observer carried a free, luxurious extra newspaper-sales- 
> are-falling booklet listing 1000 Greatest Crime Novels.
>
> The rather eccentric list included both V and The Crying of Lot 49.
>
> Hmmm...
>
> Tara
>
>

Hmmm indeed!

The Crying of Lot 49 is a detective novel that willfully disdains to  
reveal its outcome.

Gengis Cohen "did it", by the way.