If you needed another reason to brush up your Shakespeare (not that you do—Cole Porter helped us realize that), remember that a good knowledge of Shakespeare can help you solve the mysteries typical to detective fiction.
Here's an example from a Ngaio Marsh novel that I recently finished.
I won't give you the solution, of course, but, if you're well up on your Macbeth, you know it already. And if you aren't, now's the time.
First, we get the play's relevance established:
Then we get the secondary character whose casual comments lead the detective to the solution:
I won't give you the solution, of course, but, if you're well up on your Macbeth, you know it already. And if you aren't, now's the time.
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