Great Goodness

Only Thomas Pynchon would write a 477 page and end it with two unsolved murders. I realize the plot is never the point for him, but readers do expect to see crimes solved. In Pynchon's defense, he probably saved 150 pages by just leaving the dead bodies lying there, and he did imply that the 2nd victim killed the first, but still... To me, the murders were just things that happened, and his main character wasn't someone in a position to solve those crimes, since the bloodshed seemed to be orchestrated by official sources, and Maxi was just a lady who investigated minor fraud cases, not the major fraud that the government specializes in.