The Man Who Knew Too Much - Classic Mystery Thriller Novel | Suspenseful Crime Fiction Book for Adults | Perfect for Book Clubs & Mystery Lovers" （如果这是跨境电商商品） 或 "The Man Who Knew Too Much - Suspenseful Mystery Novel | Crime Fiction Book for Adults | Great for Book Clubs, Gifts & Nighttime Reading" （更强调使用场景）

Ill admit I wasn't quite sure what I was getting into with this book. I understood only that it was a "classic" of some sort. But, in reading, I appreciated the moral complexity of our protagonist who, while brilliantly solving crimes, generally decides unilaterally if the punishment of said crimes (always murder) serves any sort of public good given a) the intent of the murderer b) the character of the victim and moat often c) the impact on the institutions the murderer or murdered represent. Placed in the context of more modern stories, our "man who knew too much" was Col Jessup before Col Jessup ever existed. Modern day storytellers tend to cast the "truth at all costs" characters as the clearest and best moral arbiters of our times, but I am.more interested in stories and protagonists who are positioned in a more morally complex universe that involve realpolitik tradeoffs between the truth and the public good. Which is not to say that the protagonist here always makes the right decisions, or even that I agree with his decisions more than half the time. But it is only to say that I reject the insistence that the truth shall always set you free.* Please note that one story in the book contains some virulent anti-semitism and at least one more story contains Asian slurs and anti-Asian sentiment.