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Do spoilers make reading a crime novel a lesser experience and ruin your sense of surprise and suspense? Or do they help you understand the story and create tension?
In They Do it With Mirrors (1952), Miss Marple solves a ‘locked room’ puzzle mystery by working out the mechanics of an illusion designed to establish a cast-iron alibi. The novel’s title comes from her description of how stage magicians deceive audiences via misdirection, and Miss Marple does not like having the magic spoiled:
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