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 ====== Knox Decalogue ======
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 **The Ten Commandments of Knox** or the **Knox Decalogue** are a series of ‘rules’ for mystery/detective fiction codified by Ronald Knox. During the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, mystery stories were considered ‘games’ where the audience would be presented a set of clues and the challenge was to figure it out before the author...or, more accurately, it was the challenge of the author to successfully and fairly mislead the audience. If the audience figured it out, they won and if they failed, the author won.\\
 Thus the rules were established to help make the games fair for participants and to avoid the author from tricking the audience or making the game unfair.
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 As a complete side-note, I'm wondering whether Golden Age authors were among the closest to get to storytelling theory? That may explain their success, since a very well-written story (mechanically) is more likely to be popular and profitable.
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 ===== Analysis =====
 I'm going to lay out the Decalogue first before I analyze it. I'm getting these rules from Wikipedia, the evil, but I'll double-check other sources much later.\\
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 ==== Commandment 5 ====
 <WRAP center-text>No Chinaman must figure in the story.</WRAP>
-A Chinaman must figured in the story.
+A Chinaman must figure in the story.
 ==== Commandment 6 ====
 <WRAP center-text>No accident must ever help the detective, nor must he ever have an unaccountable intuition which proves to be right.</WRAP>