Mystery #4 for Literary Snobs: Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner
Faulkner flirted with the mystery genre throughout his career — Knight’s Gambit and Intruder in the Dust, for example, along with the screenplay for The Big Sleep,which he wrote. But his finest mystery also happens to be his finest novel. Absalom Absalom is, quite simply, a superior detective story and a great work of literature. The novel…