fair play

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Teams were tasked with illustrating the theme of fair play and Unwin said the sculpture she designed was "ridiculously complicated".

From BBC

Confronted with the rules of fair play, the reader was enjoined to solve the case alongside the detective, which required seeing through the author’s sleights of hand.

From The Wall Street Journal

Mr. Curran is an expert on Agatha Christie, who helped establish the rules of fair play by exploiting genre conventions that emerged during the 19th century, notably in Edgar Allan Poe’s stories featuring C. Auguste Dupin.

From The Wall Street Journal

Mr. Curran discusses two works in particular that helped tilt the balance in favor of fair play, both published in 1913.

From The Wall Street Journal

He thinks that readers are drawn to the genre chiefly for the contest, yet his preferred explanation cannot account for Holmes’s continued acclaim or the interwar popularity of writers who openly flouted fair play, such as Harry Stephen Keeler and James Corbett.

From The Wall Street Journal