But if you enjoy the challenge of solving difficult mysteries, "Hukkle" presents a tantalizing case waiting to be cracked.
In more than 70 novels and novellas written by Rex Stout between 1934 and 1975, this master sleuth has solved some of the most fiendishly difficult mysteries in genre literature - for the most part, without setting foot outside his sumptuously furnished Manhattan brownstone on West 35th Street.
The game they'd chosen to play was difficult and a mystery, and they loved that.
His fundamental point, however, is that all the emails really reflect is that the investigation into what specifically happened and who did the attacks were a difficult and challenging mystery to solve, especially in the first days after the event.
He says of poetry: ""I have never considered [it] an intrinsically difficult art whose mysteries can be appreciated only by a trained intellectual".
Seibert described the show's theme as "The X-Files for kids", citing difficult questions and mysteries to be posed in each episode.
But proving cause and effect in the cancer mystery is difficult, the investigators said, especially given that experiments cannot be done on sea lions, which are federally protected.
But a thriller writer, obliged to deliver a tight plot, the requisite number of twists and showdowns and set pieces, along with a sufficiently difficult but satisfyingly resolved mystery?
Complexity of character makes a crime drama more compelling, and a mystery more difficult to solve.
