: Re: How can I keep secret a major detail known to the POV protagonist? How do you write a story where the point-of-view character knows something, but you want to keep it a secret from the reader

(spoilers) I second the user who recommends reading Agatha Christie's novel,

'The Murder of Roger Ackroyd'.

One of the finer points of the novel was the fact that the narrator spends much of the time dwelling on other characters in the story rather than himself, its almost as if he is a secondary character rather than the arch typical narrator who is almost always assumed to be the 'hero' someone who reveals everything to the reader through steam of consciousness or some other trope.

Want more proof? watch The Usual Suspects if you haven't already.

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