An Historical Overarch: OR an Overreach?:
The 'mystery' novel was invented in the eighteen hundreds
by Dostoevsky (I know; I know) or Poe or that French guy I cannot remember
and could not have come into existence if "the meaning of life" [in Western Civ]
had not become problematic.....
Is Bolano's "The Savage Detectives" on that list?