The Importance of a Dead Body in Mystery

The dead body is pretty important to the genre then? Yes, definitely. I had a long conversation with my editor about this precisely because she says that too many authors feel obliged to be able to do it. To basically have a dead body. If not on the first page, then at least in the first chapter. And if you're writing a certain kind of mystery that works, but if you want to do a lot of world building, which is something that mystery has in common with fantasy and science fiction, that world building takes time. Sometimes it's useful to have a smaller mystery that's not the murder, which also often happens in fantasy that you have like a smaller problem that's