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Dead Man's Folly

Christie, Dame Agatha
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mystery cozy mystery past tense third limited POV ~231 pp
features extracted 2026-04-12

Vibe

melancholic tense ironic

A mystery. Expect minimal worldbuilding, dense, literary prose. Plot-driven. Ends on an unresolved note. Contains notable violence.

Style Fingerprint

Prose density 75
sparsedense
Pacing 40
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 30
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 10
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 80
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 60
externalintrospective
Ending 20
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 60
intimateepic

Content

Violence 60%
noneextreme
Sexual content 20%
noneexplicit
Humor 40%
seriouscomedic
Romance 30%
nonecentral

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count57,703
Page count~231 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVthird limited

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