The book's whodunit aspect extends beyond the dual narratives, of course.
A dual narrative is a form of narrative that tells a story in two different perspectives, usually two different people.
This history-spanning dual narrative prefigures the writer's pet themes, 'history-mystery' and the expression of a dialectic relationship between past and present.
Many of her novels have either a historical setting or a distinct historical connection, and often have split or dual narratives.
Solitary Fragments (La soledad), divided in five chapters, follows a dual narrative, the characters' lives unfold as a series of everyday concerns over health, work, shelter, relationships and money.
The novel is a piece of urban realism written in dual narrative.
The dual narratives, the sculptural and the romantic, come to reflect one another until the climactic point at which they become completely mutual.
In the name of clarity, we recognise the importance of temporal linearity and eschew flashbacks, dual temporal narratives and foreshadowing.
Throughout "Ellen Foster" there is a dual narrative.
"The Hide" is laid out as a dual narrative.