Franklin D. Roosevelt loved detective stories. Despite his adoration
of the genre he had a problem with just how formulaic the stories were. So, he
started thinking of his own plot which he discussed with his friend Fulton
Oursler, a magazine editor. They came up with a plan to take some of the best
authors of the era, giving them FDR’s plot, but write it as a round robin. The
idea was to have each author write a chapter that would leave the protagonist
in a dangerous situation the next author would have to write him out of. While
the book was published in 1936, it actually ended on a cliffhanger that wasn't
resolved until 1967 when the creator of Perry Mason, Erle Stanley Gardner, tied
everything up in a concluding chapter. The
book is titled The President’s Mystery Plot.
Cliffhanger: a dramatic and exciting ending to an
episode of a serial, leaving the audience in suspense and anxious not to miss
the next episode.
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