Most detective stories are located in one city, the Maigret ‎series in Paris, Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlow in Los ‎Angeles. These stories, like the television series based ‎on Colin Dexter's Morse novels, are set in Oxford. Unlike ‎Raymond Chandler's and Colin Dexter's novels these are ‎suspense stories of the Hitchcock variety. The ‎fundamental difference is that a thriller is seen from the ‎point of view of the police, or in Chandler's case the ‎private dick. A suspense story is seen from the point of ‎view of the suspect. The whole perspective alters. In a ‎suspense story there is no temptation for the reader to ‎skip to the last page to find out who did it.‎