PEACE [Digest urth.v002.n002]

It was about three-quarters of the way through the book that I suddenly realized that the house was non-physical, and was essentially his memory ("What house has all the significant rooms from your life in it, in unchangable form?"). It was at the end that I figured out he was already dead. The reference to the story of the Chinese youth was the clue. But where do you get murders from? I like the puzzle aspects of Wolfe's work, if I get them, but sometimes I don't (e.g., what's really going on in There_are_Doors? Is the guy just a psychotic who isn't taking his medicine?). -John