Maybe in the end that will mean that I'm out on the street with what I'm wearing. Greed is kind of the bottom line, especially when we no longer have a sense of individual responsibility. There was a time 100 years ago in America when everybody in the same town you lived in would take care of you if you fell on hard times. Nowadays you're at the mercy of the government, and the government has very little mercy. Everything is resolved.
Closure comes every time.
There's a sense of comeuppance. The nice thing about a mystery is the sense of closure. But I'm very ambivalent about the bad guys in my books. I don't like these people who want to take over the world, who want to eat your liver with fava beans. They've all got stories and lives, and what I try to do when I write is to put faces on them.