Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket) On The Similarities Between Detectives And Femme Fatales:

Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket) on the similarities between detectives and femme fatales:

The detective and the femme fatale are both doing the exact same thing in a noir story: They’re both confined by their circumstances, and they’re both making their own moral path through a world that is sinister and secretive. … A femme fatale is a showgirl or the displaced daughter of a tycoon or a girl who grew up on the wrong side of the tracks and will do anything not to return there, and a detective often has similar circumstances. … [I]t’s what draws them together and also what makes them fight. And once I realized that – that they were really doing the same thing – I saw a way that you could put that in a children’s book. You could have a detective and a mysterious young girl who are birds of feather and who can’t stand one another and who are unapologetic about making their way in a world that seems to have no place for them.

Image by Meredith Heuer, courtesy of Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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All the Wrong Questions is odd. It's just a child who gets kidnapped by this random lady. He's perfectly fine with this. He goes to this town where they aren't allowed to breathe between the hours of eight and six, or whatever. He's perfectly fine with this. He meets this orphaned coffee addict who's like sixteen, and he just says, she's hot. Then he meets these elementary-age kids running a taxi service because their father is dead or something. He is cool with this as well.

I love those books.