The most important apparent disadvantage you'll face with an amateur sleuth has to do with the suspension of belief--why is this amateur detective attempting to solve this murder? Why not let the cops do it? Why does this amateur keep tripping over dead bodies? And why doesn't she mind her own business?
Nancy Pickard in Writing Mysteries, edited by Sue Grafton, 1992
Nancy Pickard in Writing Mysteries, edited by Sue Grafton, 1992
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