And his occasional
scrawls on notepads, made while interviewing a dizzying array of clients and witnesses, become increasingly less focused on the clues and connections he's making than they resemble the mental overflow of someone on a very bad trip.
If the story or material is true and real, if the characters are realistic, if I am entertained or educated, then I give credit to the * author * of the work, whether they
scrawled it out
on Notepad and uploaded it to Kindle at 4 am, or whether they're Grisham, King, or Cornwell.