The thriller is the cardinal twentieth-century form. All it, like the twentieth century, wants to know is: Who's Guilty?
Source: In An Uncommon Scold, by Abby Adams, 1989.
-- Brigid Brophy, (Jun 12 1929-1995), English-Irish writer, novelist, playwright; Her satiric, witty novels explore the psychology of sex, art, and opera; wrote A Literary Person's Guide to Opera, 1965.