NEW YORK (AP) — The greatest mystery in Rian Johnson’s “Knives Out” movies might be Benoit Blanc.

Over the course of three films, Johnson and Daniel Craig have stingily dropped clues to Blanc’s past and personal life. Since Blanc first introduced himself in “Knives Out” as “a respectful, quiet, passive observer … of the truth,” following the breadcrumbs has been a sport of its own.

There are, for instance, the vague, offhand references to cases he’s cracked before: something with a tennis champion, another with a ballet dancer and, in the latest chapter, “Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery,” we hear about something dastardly at the Kentucky Derby that he solved.

Blanc has been profiled in The New Yorker and a guest on “The View.” He appears to live with Hugh Grant. He dislikes t

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