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Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand restitution or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

— W.H. Auden , from “The Guilty Vicarage: Notes on the Detective Story, by an Addict,” published in Harper’s Magazine , May 1948