Retyping the Speckled Band, Part 3: Revealing Depth

Originally published January 31, 2008.

Last time, we looked at Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s techniques of:

  • the information dump as extended inner story; and
  • pacing between inner and outer story.

Today, we’re going to look at Doyle’s adeptness at revealing character depth through multiple narrative means.

Let us type.

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