Crash and Fancy’s Despicable Hearts (and Writers) Club™

[Clement Rage]

No, it's that when only necessary things are described, it's easy to pick out from apparently unnecessary description what will become important later. If the book suddenly starts describing a specific door in more detail than usual, it becomes a fair bet that this door will be an important piece of evidence.

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

Isn't that the point of detective novels, though? To give the reader the important evidence piece by piece, so they can try to solve the puzzle before the detective does? If you don't know what the evidence is, how can you solve the puzzle?

 

[Clement Rage]

I usually don't try and solve them ahead of time, but identifying the relevant parts can be part of a puzzle too, no? Not to describe every tree and leaf or whatever, but strictly only describing necessary things closes off possibilities.