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Last but not least, we get to close this series by tackling the subject of unclosed questions. Now, the reader has finished reading the book, all the way to the last page. Surely, if the book was good enough to keep the reader interested to the end, he will recommend it to his friends.

Well, we almost got there except for one little detail. Some questions remained open for no good reason. Our reader is now frustrated. Until he reached the last dot, he did hope he would get to know more about why John’s mother ended up living in a shack.

It would not have been difficult to establish. Naturally, Dirk the detective would want to establish whether John was ruthless enough to have extorted every dime from his mother.

So a single passage such as “Dirk called the hospital where John’s mother had been treated for Parkinson’s disease. ‘”Oh yes sir, I remember her quite fondly,” said the head nurse. “She was a regular here for a long time until we could not ignore anymore that she had no insurance at all. We did our best to keep treating her but, eventually, the admin noticed and sent her a bill for all the prior treatment. I think her house was sold to pay for it.” ‘or something along that line.

Now, it makes sense. Luckily, the editor spotted that in time and the writer could correct it before going to press.

So his readers will indeed recommend his book and be an integral part of the marketing process.

The only thing that remains to be done is rereading the final draft rewritten with all the editor’s remark in mind and weed out the remaining typos and spelling mistakes.

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