IN:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>Partit\u00fara Irodalomtudom\u00e1nyi foly\u00f3irat, Volume XVII. , Issue 1, 2022, p. 95-104,\u00a0ISSN 1336-7307<\/span><\/p>\n DOI:\u00a0<\/strong>10.17846\/PA.2022.17.1.95-104<\/p>\n Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n The crime novel has always been linked to the idea of the knowability and discoverability of the world but at the same time, the incompatibility of the truth and law appeared already in classic crime fiction. During the 20th century the genre increasingly problematized the relationship between the ethics of truth and the logical aspects also became more and more questionable. L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Andr\u00e1s\u2019s novel. Though The Red Crown offers the reading of a historical novel it is firstly a political crime based on the history of the 40 years and the contemporary society that makes us aware that any form of justice can only be the survival of an empty narrative form. The detective in the book used to be a mathematician. His conjecture about probability, presented as a cataphora at the beginning of the plot, is related to the knowability of the world and even to the fundamental questions of existence. It shows that the logic is overwritten by reality just as the concept of good and evil is only a guess but no more it can reach the certainty of a proposition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n