Word: whydunit
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...girl and eventually murders her. Why did he do it? For a long time, the reader is not told, while the narrator sifts the aging murderer's memories for the quirks of mind and the twists of fate that led to the crisis. The surface answer to this whydunit is that the young wife had an insatiable appetite for men, and that her husband killed her in cold, obsessional jealousy. But it is finally clear that the victim whom Robert Millhouser really loathed and destroyed was Robert Millhouser himself...
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