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Originally Posted by Judoh
Have you read And then there were none? That's exactly what happens.  |
Also, two of Agatha Christie's big "firsts" had the killer as the most obvious person, and the motive laid right before the reader in the first half of the first chapter. In both, pretty much everyone thought they knew who the killer was in the beginning, but by the time the story ended, so much had happened that they were completely shocked by the killer's identity.
In a way, that's the toughest kind of mystery to write. To shove the killer right in the readers' face and still manage to trick them.