18.12: The Long Shadow of Unanswered Questions
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How to Construct a Good Red Herring
It's super useful to anticipate the question that a reader might have and to give that question to another one of the characters. I will flag though that you do need to make sure that it is actually a long painful complicated story. Red herrings are one of the ways that you can are linked to the unanswered question because they are the question, the line of questioning that pulls your detective down down the wrong dark alley.
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